Excerpt from A Young Man's Difficulties With His Bible The author, on assuming the pastoral charge of a church in a thrifty and intelligent inland city of New England, found in the community a large number of young men not exactly sceptical but a good deal unset tied 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 popa lar thought. They asked for some book which should meet briefly 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 him frankly their perplexities, and then to give a course of lectures on the general subject of these Difficulties. The lectures were given to crowded houses on Sunday evenings, one in each month, for two successive seasons. It has been thought. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.