Lectures Delivered Before the Young Men's Christian Association, in Exeter Hall

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Excerpt from Lectures Delivered Before the Young Men's Christian Association, in Exeter Hall: From November, 1862, to February, 1863Christian men generally are not sufficiently impressed with the importance of these means, as an auxiliary to the efforts by which they would advance the kingdom of the Redeemer, and secure the general progress of the work of God in the world. There is in too many minds a fear of the education of Young Men, which absurdly contrasts with the feeling in favour of the education of the poor, and becomes in the hands of the infidel and the scorner, a weapon of no little power against the system which, they say, fears the spread of knowledge. It is, to say the least, strange that a provision univer sally adopted for the working classes should be unwise or unsafe for those above them in station.It is time that there were an end made to these foolish expressions of narrowness and distrust. Young Men are like all other classes, open to in¿uences of kindness. They will love and serve those who love and serve them. If Godly men help them, as many Godly men have nobly done in past times, they will learn to value the motives which lead to such conduct. If good people treat them as children, they will learn to meet distrust with contempt and avoidance. The tendency of Young Men to seek pleasure rather than usefulness, needs no such stimulus as that which is afforded by the fears of good men as to the results of their education. They will only too readily seek the pleasures of the world if there be no effort made to provide for them nobler engagements.Hence the Committee believe that a very important assistance has been furnished to their religious mission, by the agencies of an educational character which they have been enabled to provide for Young Men, and of which these Lectures are the chief.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.