From the 1905 Introduction: "The 'Five Hundred Bible Subjects' which appear outlined in the following pages, have been gathered from the Sacred Word and used during the past thirty years in various ways, while seeking to help others in the things of God. For the most part, they have been used in giving Bible Readings, Simple Addresses, and Homely Talks to companies of young believers and others, who needed the Bread of Life broken small, and the Truth ministered in words easy to be understood by the common people. They are chiefly Outlines and Groupings of Fundamental Truths and Elementary Doctrines of the Faith, upon which the confidence and hope of children of God in all ages has reposed, and by feeding upon which, spiritual life is developed, spiritual health maintained, and spiritual strength derived for walk and service. John Ritchie." Truths as useful today (if not more so), than they were in 1905.