The Papers composing this volume were contributed by desire to
The Life of Faith,
as a popular apologetic series in defence of the Bible from the attacks made on it from different quarters. They are now published in the hope that they may do something to steady the minds of those who are in perplexity owing to the multitude and confusion of the opinions that prevail in these times regarding the Sacred Book. The Papers are written
from the standpoint of faith in the Bible as the inspired and authoritative record for us of God's revealed will. The author has no sympathy with the view which depreciates the authority of Scripture in order to exalt over against it the authority of Christ. James Orr (1844 September 1913) was professor of apologetics, church history, and then systematic theology. In 1885 he received a D. D. from Glasgow University, and in the early 1890s delivered a series of lectures that later became the influential
The Christian View of God and the World
. He was a very careful and precise expositor.