Excerpt from A Manual for Young Church-Members Had I written with a view to controversy, the aspect of these pages would have been very difi'erent, - the margin would have been duly fortified with an array of authorities -and here and there might have been a Sprinkling of Greek, signifying the state of the author's equipments for disputation. But writing first for a popular au dience, and then for readers of common learning, I have chosen to omit all those citations, and all those references to learned authors, which to such readers would be altogether unprofitable. 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.