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EGYPT AND ITS MONUMENTS.
infidel in principle, but claiming (and in some instances justly)
to be scientific, dexterously to insinuate, rather than positively
to assert, that Egypt was making to them wondrous revelations
at the expense of the truth of Scripture. The characters and
claims of these men have, perhaps, with a class, given weight
to their insinuations, when there was neither the ability nor the
means to test their boasted science, or sift their artful insinua-
tions. It was for this class principally that the present writer
assumed the pen. Purposely avoiding all perplexing ques-
tions of mere science, it occurred to him that it might be use-
ful to plain Christians of honest hearts and common sense,
if from the labors of men as good and as learned as the self-
styled scientific, there should be gathered into one body and
plainly presented, evidence from Egypt, intelligible to ordinary
faculties, tending to show that the Bible found there some sup-
port at least; and that unhesitatingly to reject it, on the ground
of any supposed discoveries yet made there, indicated a disease
of the heart quite as much as a fault of the head.
If in this, his unambitious effort, he shall prove so far suc-
cessful, as to quiet the apprehensions or confirm the faith
of any fellow-Christian, however humble, he will be more than
repaid for his labor.
FINIS.
EGYPT AND ITS MONUMENTS.
infidel in principle, but claiming (and in some instances justly)
to be scientific, dexterously to insinuate, rather than positively
to assert, that Egypt was making to them wondrous revelations
at the expense of the truth of Scripture. The characters and
claims of these men have, perhaps, with a class, given weight
to their insinuations, when there was neither the ability nor the
means to test their boasted science, or sift their artful insinua-
tions. It was for this class principally that the present writer
assumed the pen. Purposely avoiding all perplexing ques-
tions of mere science, it occurred to him that it might be use-
ful to plain Christians of honest hearts and common sense,
if from the labors of men as good and as learned as the self-
styled scientific, there should be gathered into one body and
plainly presented, evidence from Egypt, intelligible to ordinary
faculties, tending to show that the Bible found there some sup-
port at least; and that unhesitatingly to reject it, on the ground
of any supposed discoveries yet made there, indicated a disease
of the heart quite as much as a fault of the head.
If in this, his unambitious effort, he shall prove so far suc-
cessful, as to quiet the apprehensions or confirm the faith
of any fellow-Christian, however humble, he will be more than
repaid for his labor.
FINIS.