The Other World

"These volumes have been compiled from the standing-point of a hearty and reverent believer in Historical Christianity. No one can be greater completely conscious of their imperfections and incompleteness than the Editor; for the topics below consideration occupy such a large field, that their cure at increased size would have mostly improved the bulk of the volumes, and indefinitely postponed their publication.
The data and data set forth (and throughout, the Editor has dealt with facts, as a substitute than with theories) have been gathered from time to time at some point of the previous twenty years, as nicely from regular historic narrations as from the private facts of countless pals and buddies involved in the subject-matter of the book."