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Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story

Creator: Barker, Joseph, 1806-1875
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important stages. I have had a somewhat eventful journey. There are but few perhaps who have had a larger or more varied experience. I have committed great errors, and I have in consequence passed through grievous sorrows; and I would fain do something towards saving those who come after me from similar errors and from similar sorrows: and this is the object of the work before you. At an early period, when I was little more than sixteen years of age, I became a member of the Methodist society. Before I was twenty I became a local preacher. Before I was twenty-three I became a travelling preacher; and after I had got over the first great difficulties of my calling, I was happy in my work; as happy as a mortal man need wish to be. It was my delight to read good books, to study God's Word and works, and to store my mind with useful knowledge. To preach the Gospel, to turn men from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, and to promote the instruction and improvement of God's people were the joy and rejoicing of my soul. There were times, and those not a few, when I could sing with Wesley-- "In a rapture of joy my life I employ, The God of my life to proclaim: 'Tis worth living for this, to administer bliss And salvation in Jesus's name." And I was very successful in my work. I never travelled in a circuit in
The Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns

THE SEWERAGE OF SEA COAST TOWNS BY HENRY C. ADAMS CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THE FORMATION OF TIDES AND CURRENTS II. OBSERVATIONS OF THE RISE AND FALL OF TIDES III. CURRENT OBSERVATIONS IV. SELECTION OF SITE FOR OUTFALL SEWER.
which there was not a considerable increase of members, and in one place where I was stationed, the numbers in church-fellowship were more than doubled in less than eighteen months. In those days it never once entered my mind that I could ever be anything else but a Christian minister: yet in course of time I ceased to be one; ceased to be even a Christian. I was severed first from the Church, and then from Christ, and I wandered at length far away into the regions of doubt and unbelief, and came near to the outermost confines of eternal night. And the question arises, How happened this? And how happened it that, after having wandered so far away, I was permitted to return to my present happy position? These two questions I shall endeavor, to the best of my ability, to answer. CHAPTER II. CAUSES OF UNBELIEF. How came I to wander into doubt and unbelief?