Excerpt from Reason and Redemption: Or the Gospel as It Attests ItselfIT is the purpose of this volume to present an argument for the truth of the Christian religion. Many may imagine that no further reasoning on that subject is demanded in our country or day. It is true that the era has passed during which it was necessary constantly to defend the outworks of Christianity. Infidelity, once so arrogant and impious in her assertions and claims, and so violent in her assaults upon sacred truth, has been, again and again, met in the open field and vanquished with her own chosen weapon of argument. In lands nominally Christian, litera ture, science, and the arts have become the allies of our sacred faith, and skepticism now contents herself with mere whispers and insinuations, or becomes loud and clamorous only in the purlieus of vice. Hobbes, Hume, and Paine can be scarcely said to have any successors in the present day. Divine providence has, within the last century, furnished proof of the truth of the Christian religion, by signally showing, in the affairs of certain nations, its importance to the temporal welfare of mankind. It must be admitted that Christianity, in recent days, has achieved triumphs so numerous and vast, that it is no longer necessary to pursue the old line of her defense.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.