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Nature, Foundation and Development.

A BOOK FOR YOUNG MEN.

BY

WILLIAM LANDELS,

MINISTER OF REGENT'S PARK CHAPEL, LONDON.

"Watch ye, stand fast like men, be strong. Let all your things be done with charity."

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NEW YORK:

ROBERT CARTER AND BROTHERS,

No. 530 BROADWAY.

1861.

PREFACE.

THIS volume is composed, to a considerable extent, of lectures delivered by the author to Young Men's Associations in various parts of the country; a small portion of it has also previously appeared in print. It is issued in its present form, not because of "repeated requests"-for he knows how often such requests are prompted by partiality, rather than the sober judgment of the hearer, but because of his own conviction that a large number of young men may possibly profit by its contents. He firmly believes in the principles it enunciates. He knows how much some of its counsels are needed. He thinks he knows something of the style of address which young men prefer; and, the better to reach them, has given utterance to his thought in the freest and most outspoken manner. Should the critic be offended with the structure of his sentences, he is sincerely sorry,-though more for the critic's sake than his own; and while he bows to the merited censure which his style is likely to elicit, he