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"This is emphatically a book for the times.

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There is remarkable power of condensation, united with clearness in the exhibition of the arguments on behalf of the Divine authority, authenticity, and genuineness of the Holy Scriptures, while the claims of the Gospel are winningly set forth in the lectures, illustrative of its adaptation to all men, and its results on 'social economics' and on the true elevation of the people. If this book meet the general circulation which its intrinsic merits deserve, it will, we are persuaded, under the Divine blessing, prove an important auxiliary in the hopeful movements now being made for the true happiness and progress of the people."-Christian Times, May 15, 1852.

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"These lectures have done much good to those for whom they were at first designed, and we cordially wish that the benefit may be extended to thousands more."-Eclectic Review for July 1852.

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"The lectures are in number fifteen; and anything better suited to the class addressed, more likely to recommend itself to the practical interests as well as moral intelligence of working people, or in every respect more free from cant or pretence, than the tone and method adopted throughout, we could not have imagined. They were well worthy of republication."-London Examiner, April 17, 1852. "This is a valuable production, presenting an excellent example of the most efficient method of dealing with the many. * * In truth, the volume is altogether one adapted to general circulation, deserving alike the attention of the workman and the workman's master. It abounds with many facts, which, while sustaining positions and illustrating principles, are in themselves fraught with interest and instruction. The two last lectures, entitled Objections,' are very masterly. The work has our cordial commendation, as beautifully blending intelligence with piety."-British Banner, April 28, 1852.

"Mr Wallace takes up and disposes of all those objections to revelation which ignorance and prejudice so often urge against it, appealing alike to the reason and the feelings with an eloquent warm-heartedness which cannot fail to produce a deep impression on the mind of every reader. * This valuable little

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volume is dedicated to the working men of Bradford; it ought to have been, and in fact it really is, dedicated to working men everywhere, and not to those only, but to every class of the people. It is just such a book as the character of the times demands."-Scottish Press, April 23, 1852.

"Here we have a volume full of genuine and unaffected promptings for the moral and religious welfare of the people. Rarely or ever has an eloquence, marked with simplicity, earnestness, and grace, been enlisted in the same cause for such purposes, and with such immediate success, a certain and undeniable proof of its intrinsic worth and value. The volume consists of some fifteen lectures (delivered before audiences of 2000 persons), at the Mechanics' Institute of Bradford. In two days a thousand volumes were sold. * * The volume deserves a world-wide circulation, and we do not doubt but that it will meet with a welcome everywhere."-Weekly Dispatch, May 2, 1852.

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"Besides embracing much historical and literary matter, they are suffused with the radiance of a glowing fancy, and contain many

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passages of the finest eloquence. While the author's principal aim has been to clear away doubts and vindicate the claims of the Bible to be regarded as the best friend of the million, he has, at the same time, produced a book that will be read with much interest and profit by thousands who have no doubt on the subject. Masters who feel an interest in the welfare of their workers, could not do better than present every young man or woman in their employ with a copy of this work."-Glasgow Examiner, April 24, 1852.

"The author was successful in drawing the attention of the working men of Bradford to the subject, and their example will probably influence the workmen of other parts of Yorkshire and of the empire to take an additional interest in the Bible. The lectures throughout fervently recommend that book to working men as the one in which they may find the true guide of life and the balm for every woe."-Economist, May 15, 1852.

"We would especially direct attention to the lecture on the 'Social Influence of the Bible,' and the one entitled the 'Bible and Social Economics.' They will, we are persuaded, commend themselves to the mind and heart of every intelligent working man."-Leeds Times, May 8, 1852.

"These lectures are eminently qualified to remove many prejudices, and beget a much kindlier feeling towards the Christian faith in that large body of the working people to whom they are especially addressed."-Weekly Times, May 23, 1852.

"We have seldom met with a volume more suited, in its plain, straightforward, honest, and able advocacy of the Bible, to recommend the blessed volume to the confidence and affection of men."Scottish Congregational Magazine, June 1852.

"Mr Wallace has succeeded in thoroughly unmasking the kind of infidelity that obtains among the working classes, in a style of diction at once earnest and popular. We wish the lectures could be circulated through every city, town, and village of Britain. It is a pity that such a work should not be gratuitously distributed among working men by those who have the means at command, and the Christian willinghood to employ them in a good cause."-Primitive Church Magazine, July, 1852.

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'This is, in our eyes, a very interesting and a very valuable little volume; it is one of the first attempts we have seen to explain in popular, and even in eloquent language, the great questions connected with the Bible as a book, its authenticity, its inspiration, and its use. We earnestly recommend it not only to the class for whom, as the title informs us, it is especially designed, but to every other class of our readers."-London Weekly Paper, May 1, 1852. "Mr Wallace wishes to bring living religion into the heart and home of the poor man; and we believe he here smites into the heart of the matter. * * * We call the following a remarkably good piece of writing." (See p. 135.)-Hogg's Instructor, June 5, 1852.

"These lectures were delivered on the Sunday afternoons, attracted large audiences, and were distinguished by considerable success-facts which we are not at all surprised to learn on recurring to the contents of the volume before us. We can cordially recommend its perusal to all ranks; and the more it is circulated among the class for whom it was intended, the better for them."-Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, June 1852.

THE BIBLE

AND

THE WORKING CLASSES.

BY

ALEXANDER WALLACE,

EDINBURGH.

THIRD THOUSAND.

EDINBURGH: WILLIAM OLIPHANT AND SONS.
LONDON HAMILTON & CO. BRADFORD: H. BYLES.
GLASGOW: DAVID ROBERTSON.

MDCCCLIII.

MURRAY AND GIBB, PRINTERS. EDINBURGH.

ΤΟ

WILLIAM LOGAN,

A DEVOTED

AND SUCCESSFUL WORKER IN THE

GREAT CAUSE OF TOWN AND CITY MISSIONS, AND WHO HAS

SPENT MANY YEARS IN UNWEARIED EFFORTS TO PROMOTE THE BEST

INTERESTS OF THE UNFORTUNATE AND THE WRETCHED,

WHO TENANT OUR PRISONS AND FREQUENT

OUR STREETS,

THIS VOLUME

IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED BY

THE AUTHOR.

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