But it has not been deemed needful to crowd the pages with references to the works of Christian apologists.

The Christian scholar does not need such references; while to those for whose benefit I write, their names carry no authority, and their arguments are generally quite unknown.

One great object of my labor will be gained if I shall succeed in awaking the spirit of inquiry among my readers, to such an extent as to load them to a prayerful and patient perusal of several of the works named on the next page.

They have heard only one side of the question, and will be surprised at their own ignorance of matters which they ought to have known.
Books on the Evidences are not generally circulated.

Ministers perhaps have some volumes in their libraries; but in a hundred houses, it would be hard to find half a dozen containing as many as would give an inquiring youth a fair view of the historical evidences of the truth of the gospel.