A.00i To the reader.

To the reader.
We ask your earnest attention to the following pages. Never was the atmosphere so full of unholy scepticism as at the present hour. The vaunted learning of our time is making men mad. Long ago the divine warning was issued — "Avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: which some professing have erred concerning the faith" (1 Timothy 6:20-21). Blessed is the man who heeds the admonition.
In this small book we have endeavoured to set forth, as plainly and as concisely as possible, what we believe to be the truth of Holy Scripture concerning the great matters referred to. May God by His blessed Spirit mercifully preserve both reader and writer from the apostate tendencies of these last days.