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PHILADELPHIA:
SMITH, ENGLISH & CO.
1874.
[Pg ii]
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by
REV. JOSEPH BARKER,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
Jas. B. Rodgers Co.,
Printers and Stereotypers,
Philadelphia.
Introduction.—My early life.—Enter the Church.—The Ministry.—Happydays.—Sad change.—How happened it? 17
Causes of unbelief.—Vice.—Other causes.—Constitutional tendencies todoubt.—Disappointed expectations about Christianity.—Mysteries ofProvidence.—Misrepresentations of Christ and Christianity in humancreeds.—Church divisions.—Ignorant advocates of Christianity.—Wrongprinciples of reasoning.—False science, 19
Another cause of unbelief.—Bad feeling between ministers or amongchurch members.—Alienates them from each other.—Then separates themfrom the Church.—Then from Christ.—How it works.—My case, 26
Origin of the unhappy feeling between me and some of my brotherministers.—Tendencies of my mind.—Rationalizing tendency.—Itseffects.—Reading.—Investigations.—Discoveries, 30
Modification of my early creed.—Unscriptural doctrinesrelinquished.—Scriptural ones adopted.—Some doctrinesmodified.—Theological fictions dropped.—Ea