Volume 1 — Introductory material

WHAT MUST WE DO TO BE SAVED? (1880.) Preface—The Synoptic Gospels—Only Mark Knew of the Necessity of Belief—Three Christs Described—The Jewish Gentleman and the Piece of Bacon—Who Wrote the New Testament?—Why Christ and the Apostles wrote Nothing—Infinite Respect for the Man Christ—Different Feeling for the Theological Christ—Saved from What?—Chapter on the Gospel of Matthew—What this Gospel says we must do to be Saved—Jesus and the Children—John Calvin and Jonathan Edwards conceived of as Dimpled Darlings—Christ and the Man who inquired what Good Thing he should do that he might have Eternal Life—Nothing said about Belief—An Interpolation—Chapter on the Gospel of Mark—The Believe or be Damned Passage, and why it was written—The last Conversation of Christ with his Disciples—The Signs that Follow them that Believe—Chapter on the Gospel of Luke—Substantial Agreement with Matthew and Mark—How Zaccheus achieved Salvation—The two Thieves on the Cross—Chapter on the Gospel of John—The Doctrine of Regeneration, or the New Birth—Shall we Love our Enemies while God Damns His?—Chapter on the Catholics—Communication with Heaven through Decayed Saints—Nuns and Nunneries—Penitentiaries of God should be Investigated—The Athanasian Creed expounded—The Trinity and its Members—Chapter on the Episcopalians—Origin of the Episcopal Church—Apostolic Succession an Imported Article—Episcopal Creed like the Catholic, with a few Additional Absurdities—Chapter on the Methodists—Wesley and Whitfield—Their Quarrel about Predestination—Much Preaching for Little Money—Adapted to New Countries—Chapter on the Presbyterians—John Calvin, Murderer—Meeting between Calvin and Knox—The Infamy of Calvinism—Division in the Church—The Young Presbyterian's Resignation to the Fate of his Mother—A Frightful, Hideous, and Hellish Creed—Chapter on the Evangelical Alliance—Jeremy Taylor's Opinion of Baptists—Orthodoxy not Dead—Creed of the Alliance—Total Depravity, Eternal Damnation—What do You Propose?—The Gospel of Good-fellowship, Cheerfulness, Health, Good Living, Justice—No Forgiveness—God's Forgiveness Does not Pay my Debt to Smith—Gospel of Liberty, of Intelligence, of Humanity—One World at a Time—"Upon that Rock I Stand"