Excerpt from Real Dialogues on the Evidences of Christianity: From Death Bed Scenes In point of fact, I am often in situations in which I am led to preach, rather than to speak; I am compelled, that is, to speak continuously; and then the magnitude of the subject would naturally raise any man's language, under the same circumstances, to a loftier standard. With respect to others, I always preserve their ideas, and sometimes their very words, when there is any thing remarkable in them. But I have not been studious about it, and especially in the conversations related to happen between myself and people of low rank, I have discarded almost all their vulgarisms; and also I have put their ideas into better shape and form, than they would have done for themselves. For I did not consider this to be a matter of any essential concern. Their meaning, and not their actual expressions, is all that is absolutely necessary to be known. 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.