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Excerpt from A Young Man's Perils and Bible Difficulties, Containing a Young Man's Safeguard in the Perils of the Age
City of New England, found in the community a large number of young men not exactly sceptical, but a good deal unsettled in their views of religion. They were graduates of Grammar and High schools; intelligent young men, who, though employed as clerks or apprentices, found time to read the papers, the magazines, and occasionally a book. They had caught the drift of one section of popular thought. They asked for some book which should meet brie?y and yet fairly the difficulties which they felt. There were plenty of scholarly volumes, suited to men who had received a liberal education and who were masters of their own time. But a small, popular, and at the same time accurate volume, suited to this demand, the author could not find. It occurred to him to invite these young men to state to himfrankly their perplexities, and then to give a course of lectures on the general subject of these Diffi culties. The lectures were given to crowded houses on Sunday evenings, one in each month, for two successive seasons. It has been thought that good might be done by publishing selections from these lectures. A few of them have been taken, and the style somewhat changed from the spoken to the written form. The aim has been to give the results of careful study without the processes, to be as ao curate in the statement of facts as if the work were to be used as a text-book, and yet to keep in mind the class of young men for whom it is designed. Every chapter, without an exception, has grown out of an actual conversation held with some young friend, or else out of some letter or message received from him. When delivered as lectures the author received repeated thanks from individuals to whom they were helpful. It is his prayer that God may make this little volume a blessing to those who read it.
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