Excerpt from The Gospel: An Exposition of Its First Principles, And Man's Relationship to DeityWith the youth of Zion it has been different. Being removed from the errors of the sectarian world, it has been thought they would accept the gospel as a matter of course. It may be stated as a general truth, that too much in this respect has been taken for granted, and in too manv instances our youth have not been instructed so thoroughly in the things of God as they ought to have been. Many have grown up in lamentable ignorance of even the First Principles of the gospel - which ignorance is often confounded with unbelief or mistaken for infidelity.To such the gospel has only to be presented intelligently, and in its native simplicity, to be accepted. Whoever examined our religion, said one of the Fathers of the early Christian Church, but what he accepted it? So now: the Gospel has only to be understood to be admired and believed.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.