Arthur T. Pierson, Many Infallible Proofs: A Series of Chapters on the Evidences of Christianity; or, The Written and Living Word of God (Chicago: F. H. Revell, 1886), ch. I, "Weighing the Proofs," p. 11.

God himself, then, asks of us no blind faith. We should know what we believe and why we believe it. Nothing is to be accepted unless based on good evidence; to believe hastily may be to blindly embrace error and untruth.…