Hezekiah and His Age (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Hezekiah and His Age It was my fortune some time ago to hear a distinguished dignitary of the Church preach on the question of the permanent importance of the Old Testament. The preacher evidently seemed to think that the permanent element was not very large. The earlier history of pre-Mosaic times was largely mythical and allegorical, the history of the later kingdom was very inaccurate, when tested by newly discovered records, and was at best but the story of an obscure nationality of Western Asia, dwelling under the shadow of great imperial powers. I wondered what was left, but when the preacher said that there was one book of the Old Testament which answered in a marked way to the cravings of the present day, I at once guessed that he meant the Psalter, alike precious to cottager and to philosopher, to every type of men age after age. My guess, however, was wrong, it was not the Psalter, it was Ecclesiastes, a book which answered strikingly to the pessimistic tendencies of the present age. 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.