Excerpt from Peace on Earth, in Which Is Presented the Brief and Plain System of Religion Which Is Revealed in the Bible It must be a painful necessity on the part of highly-educated and well-paid ministers of the gospel, when unable (from their present standpoint) to meet the arguments of the adversary either with reason or authority, to invoke the bigotry of an intelligent congregation to their aid, by exhorting them (as they often do) that they must believe what the Bible teaches (and, of course, as they construe it), although it may appear to be unreasonable in some particulars, because it is God's Word! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.