THE APPROACHING CRISIS: BEING A REVIEW OF DR. BUSHNELL'S COURSE OF LECTURES, ON THE BIBLE, NATURE, RELIGION, SKEPTICISM AND THE SUPERNATURAL. BY ANDREW JACKSON DAVIS, AUTHOR OF "NATURE'S DIVINE REVELATIONS," "GREAT HARMONIA," "ARABULA," BOSTON: BANNER PUBLISHING HOUSE, No. 9 BOSWORTH STREET. of Mr. Alfred E. Gités. 686 Sp Davis Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the AUTHOR'S PREFACE. THE GREAT QUESTION of this age, which is destined to convulse and divide Protestantism, and around which all other religious controversies must necessarily revolve, is exegetically foreshadowed in this Review; which is composed of Six Discourses, delivered by the Author before the Harmonial Brotherhood of Hartford. Religious truths present themselves naturally to a good mind; and by such a mind they will be most accurately comprehended. Men of the greatest talent and learning frequently reason themselves into the profoundest errors, by commencing with the confusing impression that Truth is complex and supernatural. He who would apprehend the simplicity of Truth and worship at her shrine, must be ready at all times to divest his mind of prejudices and of preconceived opinions, whenever Truth reveals their falseness. The author's method will be found to be plain, because such is truly the seal of reason. The views presented concerning the "Word," it may be remarked, are mainly connected with the external peculiarities thereof, as the occasion does not now demand a deeper criticism. The |