The President of Centre College, Kentucky, has well said in reference to this work, that "after all the learned, eloquent, and argumentative treatises which have been published, on different branches of the Christian Evidences, something was still needed-something adapted to the peculiar tastes and condition of our community," (especially to many vigourous minds of the West, where the author's life has been chiefly spent) "to excite curiosity, awaken attention, and stimulate inquiry-something which should bring down abstruse argument to the apprehension of men in general; and present striking facts to arrest the attention of the indifferent and the sceptical. Facts drawn from history, science and observation, are here placed in a strong and often startling light, and there is an earnestness a personality—a warm life's blood of reality running through the whole, which gives to the written argument much of the interest and power of an oral address." CONTENTS. 3 A trifling falsehood influences human belief against the Bible, more than gigantic truth in Scoffers are unacquainted with the facts of the 8 The subject continued-Conversation with a sena- 10, The subject continued-Damascus-important in- 11 The great and the learned do not acquaint them- 23 Inconsistency and credulity of the rejecters of the Gospel-the aged school teacher-Pagan tes- timony to the character and number of the early 24 Men who cast away the Bible are credulous in the extreme-the skeptical moralist-influence of 25 Men adopt false opinions without inquiry-a citizen 888 28 An example-a young man in Kentucky, 29 A second example-a gentleman of the bar, 30 Aversion to commentaries—we may avail ourselves of the facts they record-predictions of Rome, 119 31 Case of an infidel who began to read-a merchant 32 Use of commentaries-prophecy of the locusts, 34 The subject continued-the stone cut out without 35 An example—an educated young gentleman, 36 Works on the Evidences of Christianity recommended, 155 37 Testimony resisted-concluding remarks on the re- 45 The subject continued-the doctrine of chance— the atmosphere-effects of electricity-heat and cold-evaporation-density of the soil, water, air, &c.-iron-proofs of design-the Andes-the 59 The subject continued—a revolutionary officer, 60 The subject continued-dying fancies, 61 Disposition of unbelievers to credit accusations |