Men of Our Times; Or, Leading Patriots of the Day / Being narratives of the lives and deeds of statesmen, generals, and orators. Including biographical sketches and anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglass, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and Beecher.

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ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE
BOOKS OF THE BIBLE,
BOTH THE
CANONICAL AND THE APOCRYPHAL,
SHOWING WHAT THE BIBLE IS NOT, WHAT IT IS, AND HOW TO USE IT.
(NEW TESTAMENT,)
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.

By PROF. CALVIN E. STOWE, D. D.,
FOR MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS BIBLICAL PROFESSOR AT ANDOVER, CINCINNATI,
AND OTHER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARIES, AND ACKNOWLEDGED
TO BE ONE OF THE
BEST INFORMED BIBLE STUDENTS OF THE AGE.
THIS WORK IS ONE OF PATIENT RESEARCH, DILIGENT STUDY, AND RIPE EXPERIENCE,
BEING IN FACT
THE LIFE WORK OF THE AUTHOR.
IT TREATS OF

The common popular objections to the Bible at the present day.

The evidences upon which we receive the Sacred Books, and description of the Ancient Manuscripts of the New Testament, with fac-simile illustrations.

Brief Biographies of One Hundred Ancient Witnesses to the New Testament, whose testimony is most important, much of it cited in this work.

The testimony for the Historical Books, and a full examination, separately, of the four Gospels.

The Apocryphal Gospels, and fragments of Gospels supposed to be lost.

Modern substitutes for the Gospel History, with an examination of the works of Strauss, Weisse, Gfroerer, Bruno Bauer, F. C. Baur, Renan and Schenckel, intended to meet the undermining process with regard to the authority of Scripture, so prevalent at the present day.

Acts of the Apostles, the Apocryphal Acts, and the fourteen Epistles of Paul. The Catholic and the Apocryphal Epistles. Revelation of St. John, and the Apocryphal Revelations.

The Bible Prophets and the Classical Oracles, contrasted.

The Apocryphal Books of the Old Testament, and the reason for their exclusion from the Canon.

It is a work of real value, not sectarian at all, not even Theological, but is just what it purports to be, a History of the Books of the Bible, sufficiently critical to meet the wants of the Professor, the Clergyman and the Student, and yet so simplified as to be the book needed by every Family and every Sunday School Teacher, as the Companion of the Bible.

This book is new and fresh from the pen of the author, who has long been urged to its preparation by Presidents of Colleges, and leading Ministers and Scholars of the various Christian denominations, and has given his best energies to its completion.

It contains about 600 pages Octavo, printed from new and beautiful clear type, selected expressly for this work, illustrated with a fine steel portrait of the Author, fac-similes of the early manuscripts on which the Bible was written, very curious and interesting, and other full page illustrative engravings, all in the highest style of engraving, by the best artists in the country. It is one of the most popular books ever published.

Over 25,000 copies of this work were sold within the first six months, and the sales are constantly increasing. A similar volume, on the Old Testament, by Prof. Stowe, will be issued during the present year. Clergymen, Experienced Agents, and Ladies, will find Prof. Stowe's book the very best of its kind to solicit for. For agency, terms, etc., apply or address

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PROFESSOR STOWE'S
"HISTORY OF THE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE."
IS FULLY APPROVED BY HUNDREDS OF THE CLERGYMEN OF
ALL DENOMINATIONS.

Thus, for instance,

Rev. T. J. Conant, D. D., (Baptist,) says:

It is an honest book: dealing fairly with the unlearned reader, and laying before him without concealment or disguise, what is patent to the Scholar, in the just belief that what is SAFE for the one is SAFE for the other.

Rev. W. Croswell Doane, (Episcopal,) says:

While he (Prof. Stowe) disposes of some so-called difficulties in an off-hand and popular way, one feels that he is amply able to meet them upon a level of more accurate arguing.... Free entirely from the levity of irreverence.

Rev. Joel Hawes, D. D., (Congregationalist, a venerable Clergyman now deceased,) said:

I am prepared to give it my hearty commendation.

Rev. E. N. Kirk, D. D., (the eminent revivalist,) says:

It is the best adapted to make the canon intelligible to our people, of any [book] I have read.

President Joseph Cummings, D. D., of Wesleyan University, (Methodist,) says:

I recommend, without hesitation or reserve, Rev. Dr. Stowe's work.... I am fully persuaded it will accomplish much good.

Prof. Austin Phelps, of Andover Theological Seminary, says:

I have seldom or ever read a volume which seemed to me to settle so many things in so simple and straightforward a way. The learning and philosophy of it are equally conspicuous.

Rev. C. P. Sheldon, (Baptist,) says:

It cannot but prove most valuable in checking the skeptical tendencies of the times.

Prof. J. Haven, D. D., of Chicago Theological Seminary, says:

It will be a chief benefit to the popular mind. It is thorough and complete in its handling of the main questions discussed.

Rev. Dr. Everts, of Chicago, (Baptist,) says:

It meets all the latest and more popular objections to the word of god, enabling even the unlearned believer to give the reason for his belief to the caviling skeptic or honest enquirer.

Rev. B. F. Rawlins, Evansville, Ind., (Methodist,) says:

It is certainly the greatest antidote for the infidelity of the times that I have yet met with.

Rev. T. W. J. Wylie, Prof. of Exegetical Theology in the Reformed Presbyterian Church, says:

Skeptical objections ... are fully met. It is pervaded with an evangelical spirit throughout. It is just what is wanted for general circulation. It will do much to counteract the subtle poison of infidelity.

Rev. H. A. Nelson, of St. Louis, (Presbyterian,) says:

I know of no book better calculated to help ordinary, intelligent and candid minds to understand and appreciate the Bible.

From the New York Independent:

Prof. Stowe's book ought to have wings, wherewith it shall fly to every minister's study-table, and perch in every Sunday School library.

Henry Ward Beecher, in his pulpit, said of Stowe's History of the Books of the Bible: "I hope every person who comes to Plymouth Church will put that excellent book into his library."

From Henry M. Storrs, Congregational Church, Cincinnati, Ohio:

Prof. Stowe's book is of exceeding value; what is more, is of exceeding value to the masses, not of Christians only, but of all our people.

From President Wallace, of Monmouth College, Monmouth, Ill.:

Prof. Stowe's History of the Books of the Bible contains a mass of information—a volume of great value to the common reader as well as the Scholar.

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By SENATOR WILSON, of Massachusetts.

This volume contains nineteen chapters, giving brief sketches of the various measures of reconstruction—The Civil Rights Bill—The Freedmen's Bureau—Negro Suffrage in the District of Columbia—The Constitutional Amendment—The Admission of Tennessee—Negro Suffrage in the Territories—The several Reconstruction Acts and other measures.

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