Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1841, by DAVID NELSON, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York. 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. Page. 2 Man a fallen being-hatred of God-examples- 3 A trifling falsehood influences human belief against the Bible, more than gigantic truth in favor of it-Etna and Vesuvius-Strata of lava- 4 Facts, such as unbelievers do not learn, Scoffers are unacquainted with the facts of the Bible-predictions in the epistles to the seven 13 Scoffers of the last days are wilfully ignorant of Bible language—an aged Kentuckian, 14 The subject continued-prediction of Nineveh, 17 Men have loved darkness rather than light-con- versation between a member of congress and a 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 christians-their patience under suffering-were they either deceived, or deceivers ? 24 Men who cast away the Bible are credulous in the 8888 9.8 citizen 27 A remedy proposed-honest and thorough investi- gation, 28 An example-a young man in Kentucky, 32 Use of commentaries-prophecy of the locusts, 35 An example-an educated young gentleman, 36 Works on the Evidences of Christianity recommended, 37 Testimony resisted-concluding remarks on the re- |