No portion of the world is so barren as not to yield a rich and precious harvest of divine truth.
Source, in full
"Arctic Coal Mines — The Diomede Bay Islands", San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin (part 18 of 21 part series "Cruise of the Corwin") dated 25 August 1881, published 25 October 1881; reprinted in The Cruise of the Corwin (1917), chapter 17: Meeting the Point Barrow Expedition