Introductory

Any one who is familiar with the workings of the human heart knows that more persons are ready to question or doubt than to rest and trust. And it is ever easier to strengthen the faith of one who enjoys firm confidence in God and in the eternal verities of the universe, than it is to remove the ever-changing doubts in a mind which gives way to them. Hence practical suggestions as to wise ways of dealing with doubts and doubters are likely to be helpful to one who would serve God and help perplexed souls.

The following series of doubts expressed and doubts met is a result of actual experiences in heart-to-heart struggles in real life. While each chapter is not the literal record of a single doubter’s words during a discussion with the narrator, all that is recorded of incident or of utterance is veritable fact. In some instances the substance of several conversations is condensed into one; and in some cases similar doubts

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by different doubters are here given as if they were the doubts of a single doubter. But all the doubts were actually expressed by a doubter to the narrator, and were met by him in the line of thought now recorded. The result was in every case as here mentioned.

This by no means covers all the instances of perplexity in doubt in the narrator’s personal experience. It is simply a series of actual experiences in dealing with doubts and doubters, where help was given by the methods here stated. If the methods given as successful should, by God’s blessing, prove suggestive to other workers in similar fields, it will be an added cause of gratitude to Philadelphia, September ii, igoj.