Excerpt from From a Cloud of Witnesses: Three Hundred and Nine Tributes to the Bible The trend of our day, however, is not in the direction of over-vener ation for the Bible. The first effect of the application of the scientific method to the Scriptures is to mar their beauty for the average eye. At first blush they are left without form or comeliness, as the Messiah himself appeared. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.