THE

TESTIMONY OF SCEPTICS

TO THE

Truth of Christianity;

WITH THE EVIDENCE OF PAGAN HISTORIANS, AND
THE CONFIRMATION OF FULFILLED PROPHECY.

BY THE

AUTHOR OF "HEROINES OF OUR TIME."

"That faith which is counted for righteousness, consists not in be-
lieving without evidence, but in being open to evidence; not in believing
without good reason, but in listening to reason.' ARCHBISHOP
WHATELEY.

LONDON:

DARTON & CO., 58, HOLBORN HILL.

MDCCCLXI.

•100 c. 221.

TO THE

REV. HUGH STOWELL, M. A.,

(Rector of Christ Church, Salford; Honorary Canon of Chester; Rural Dean; and Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Manchester),

WHOSE EXERTIONS IN THE CAUSE OF

THE HIGHEST INTEREST OF HUMANITY, AND OF THE PROTESTANT FAITO,

The Evidence of Profane Historians to the Truth of Chris-