Excerpt from A Course of Lectures on the Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion: Delivered Before the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio

The limits which the Faculty had to prescribe to themselves, as well as the special aim of the course, determined the themes to be selected. The subject matter of the Evidences of Religion is, no doubt, practically inexhaustible, yet each age has its own particular phase of the one great con¿ict betweenfaith and unbelief. The great battle of the present age is fought on these three questions: I. The existence of a personal God, and, that being con ceded, 2. Whether he can make, and has made, a special revelation of himself, and, a revelation being granted, 3. The person and position of Christ. These are the live questions discussed in this vol ume. It is needless to state here the bearing and the shape which each argument assumes, as this is so much better, and more fully, done in the pages following. The lecturers are competent to speak for themselves, and, unless we have much mistaken the ability and conclusiveness of the dis cussions, they have well and satisfactorily uttered what will be accepted as the thought of the com mon Church, in defense of the faith, on these great vital questions.

Each lecture, except the first three by Bishop Foster, is independent of the others, and complete in itself. If there be found some repetition in the course of thought in the volume, as is almost in evitable in the case of many writers discussing cog nate themes without previous consultation, there is certainly no collision of views, and the parallelism will, at least, not detract from the force of the sev eral arguments, or from the value of the book.

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