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Excerpt from Lectures to Young Men: On Various Important Subjects
Trans volume is the eldest-born of my books. It dates from 1844, and originally contained only the first seven Lectures.
The Lectures were delivered on successive Sunday nights; the church was crowded during the series, - a thing that sel dom happened during my Western life. Indianapolis in 1844 contained about four thousand inhabitants, * and had not less than twelve churches of eight different denominations. The audiences of the Second Presbyterian Church, of which I was pastor, did not average five hundred in number during the eight years of my settlement. But five hundred was regarded as a large audience.
The Lectures were written, each one during the week preced ing the day of its delivery. I well remember the enjoyment which I had in their preparation. They were children of early enthusiasm. I can see before me now, as plainly as then, the room which in our little ten-foot home served at once as parlor, study, and bedroom; and the writing-chair, the place by the window, and the skeleton bookcase, with a few books scattered on solitary shelves, like a handful of people in church on a rainy day.
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