Excerpt from The Gift of Influence The sermons generally were not chosen for their academic character, but were expressly designed to avoid scholastic issues. It is my experience that the last thing an academic audience at public worship wants is an academic discourse, partly because students have a surfeit Of that in their ordinary studies, and partly because a College congregation after all consists very largely Of young men who are not much more than beginning their education and whose problems are the practical problems Of all youth. More than guidance in speculation do they need simply inspiration for life. At many Colleges where opportunity Offered, in addition to the regular Chapel Service I met the men later in a less formal way, and we discussed the intellectual and specula tive bearings of religion, often in the form of questions supplied by the students. 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.