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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
CAUSE OF INFIDELITY,
CHAPTER II.
13
Man a fallen being: hatred of God; examples; loving darkness, 14
CHAPTER III.
A trifling falsehood influences human belief against the Bible more
than gigantic truth in favor of it: Etna and Vesuvius; strata of
lava; Chinese records of antiquity,
19
CHAPTER IV.
Facts such as unbelievers do not learn,
CHAPTER V.
26
Men receive truth slowly, but error promptly: conversation with a
statesman,
29
CHAPTER VI.
Scoffers shall come,
CHAPTER VII.
31
Scoffers are unacquainted with the facts of the Bible: predictions in
the epistles to the seven churches in Asia,
CHAPTER VIII.
34
The subject continued: conversation with a senator; predictions of
CHAPTER X.
The subject continued: Damascus; important inquiries; the plough-
man,
49
CHAPTER XI.
The great and the learned do not acquaint themselves with Bible
facts: prophecies of Egypt,
CHAPTER XII.
55
The subject continued: prediction of the destruction of Jerusalem, 59
CHAPTER XIII.
Scoffers of the last days are wilfully ignorant of Bible language: an
aged Kentuckian,
68
Men have loved darkness rather than light: conversation between a
member of Congress and a physician,
CHAPTER XVIII.
The subject continued: the resurrection,
CHAPTER XIX.
76
80
The subject continued: testimony of Pagan writers,
CHAPTER XX.
888
Inconsistency of unbelievers: testimony overlooked; Acts oi Pilate, 92
CHAPTER XXI.
Unceasing cause of Infidelity in its various forms: testimony of Cel-
sus,
95
CHAPTER XXII.
The subject continued,
100
CHAPTER XXIII.
Inconsistency and credulity of the rejecters of the gospel: the aged
school-teacher; pagan testimony to the character and number of
the early Christians; their patience under suffering; were they
either deceived or deceivers ?
CHAPTER XXIV.
102
Men who cast away the Bible are credulous in the extreme: the
sceptical moralist; influence of Christianity upon morals,
CHAPTER XXV.
114
Men adopt false opinions without inquiry: a citizen of New York, 121
CHAPTER XXIX.
A second example: a gentleman of the bar,
CHAPTER XXX.
125
128
135
Aversion to commentaries: we may avail ourselves of the facts they
record; predictions of Rome,
CHAPTER XXXI.
138
Case of an infidel who began to read: a merchant of Tennessee, 151
CHAPTER XXXII.
Use of commentaries: prophecy of the locusts,
CHAPTER XXXIII.
157
Value of historical knowledge: a merchant of Kentucky; the image
in Nebuchadnezzar's dream; a history of the world,
CHAPTER XXXIV.
160
The subject continued: the stone cut out without hands,
170
CHAPTER XXXV.
An example: an educated young gentleman,
177
Testimony resisted: concluding remarks on the remedy proposed;
wealthy agriculturist of the West,
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
A further remedy: the all-powerful; evidence of experience,
CHAPTER XXXIX.
182
188
The subject continued: the doctrine of chance; the atmosphere; effects
of electricity; heat and cold; evaporation; density of the soil, wa-
ter, air, etc.; iron; proofs of design; the Andes; the Nile; Green-
land; the solar system; the moon; questions; inquiries answered;
farewell,
CHAPTER XLVI.
216