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The Destiny Of the Soul, A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
by William Rounseville Alger (1878)
Note that this is simply a secular study on the future life, including the Bible’s point of view of heaven and hell. Although being from a secular point of view, it is of limited value as far as what the Scripture says, because I (the editor David Cox) don’t believe the viewpoint of the author is a believing person’s viewpoint. Nonetheless, the book has a tremendous amount of material from non-biblical sources, from difference religious and cultural groups perspectives about heaven and hell, and in some case this is of some value in comparing with the truth, therefore I include this work. It should be noted that this has been a standard textbook in some circles for 20 years, and has 10 editions of the book which would seem to indicate that some people think it is of great value. Continue reading →
Beecher Lectures to Young Men on Various Important Subjects
By Henry Ward Beecher, 1849
In this 7 chapter work, Beecher presents us special presentations to young Christian men, and these presentations are sins and problems to avoid, like immoral women, the portrait gallery, popular amusements, six warnings, industry versus idleness, and gamblers and gambling. Continue reading →
Abbott Darius the Great is a 12 chapter historical work on the person of Darius the Great.
Evaluation by David Cox
I would only recommend this module for those students of Scripture who are wanting background to the historical times of the New Testament. Otherwise this work is just going to clog up your computer with a lot of works that are not directly useful in Bible study.
