Excerpt from Preparing to Teach: For Study by Sabbath-School Teachers and Training Classes WE have received from our fathers, and they from the generation that preceded them, a collection of short trea tises, which we call the Bible, and on which we rest our religious convictions. Have we evidence that the book can sustain these convictions? Is it what it claims to be? And if genuine, is it inspired? What is evidence in a particular case depends on the nature of the case. Assertions concerning matter demand proofs of a material kind. No one proves that twenty packages are a ton weight by moral considerations. On the other hand, no one proves that a lie is wrong by weights and scales. So, to fix the date of an event, like the Decla ration of Independence, no one employs mathematics; nor would the historical truths that are here pertinent give any aid in solving a problem in Euclid. In other words, each separate line of inquiry requires evidence of its own kind. Have we appropriate evidence that we may rest our relig ious convictions upon the Bible? 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.