Publisher's Synopsis
From the PREFACE.
The essays comprised in this volume were originally written for and published in:
The Journal and Messenger.
They were intended for plain people, such as compose the great majority of the readers of a religious paper. They were intended and designed to cover the ground of a religious and Christian system of theology. They do not presume to enter into all the questions which can be raised in a theological treatise. They are not intended for scholars, nor to meet the quibbles of cavillers. They are for young Christians; and it is believed that they will not prove unacceptable to those of broad and deep experience in the things of God. They are put into this form, because it is believed that they will thus be made useful to those who will not again see them in the columns of the paper. They are put forth with an earnest desire and hope that they may be blessed to the hearts and minds of a vast number of honest, Christian people, lovers of our Lord Jesus Christ and his Gospel.
The author received many assurances from men whose opinions he prizes that the essays, as published, were meeting a need, and were adapted to do great good among those for whom they were intended.
