If Jesus did not rise from the grave, the Christian's faith rests upon a fable, and the Christian's hope is a delusion. But, on the other hand, if He did really rise, no further argument can be demanded to establish His claim, as the Son of God, upon our confidence and obedience; no other evidence is needed to prove that He is the only Saviour of men. To the consideration of this question, the attention of the honest skeptic is respectfully invited in the following pages.

Nor must he forget that the question is to be considered by itself, entirely apart from various subjects with which it is too often confounded. "Whatever opinion he may feel at liberty to form about the days of creation, or the universality of the deluge, or the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, or Jonah and the great fish — whatever may or may not be true in Astronomy, Evolution, Geology, or any other science, the inquiry still remains, Did Jesus Rise?

The critics would probably say that there is nothing new and original in the discussion here presented; to which there is a two-fold reply; first, if there were any thing very new and original on such a topic, it would probably be very worthless; and second, it is not the aim of the book to exhibit the writer's skill, but to tell the truth in the plainest and simplest manner possible. It is his one desire to be helpful to souls, struggling amid doubts and difficulties, and to be the means of saving some to the praise of our risen and coming Lord.