BY mas THE REV. THOS. F. GAILOR, S.T.B. - ་་ CHAPLAIN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH SEWANEE, TENN. NEW YORK: Church Missions House, FOURTH AVENUE AND 22D STREET. 1905 PREFACE. THE Compilation of this manual was forced upon the author by a daily experience of the needs of students, both communicants and non-communicants, who attended the confirmation classes in the University. For, although there are already many very valuable books of the same kind in print, none of them was felt, after trial, to be all that was desired; and in so small a matter it seemed best to draw up an outline at least of what was wanted and to arrange the material for present use even if further experience should suggest improvements. The manual, therefore, does not pretend to be new or original, but it is hoped that its arrangement at least will be apDEC 101914 33066 5862 374 (RECAP) proved. It was at first intended merely for local use, and would have been privately printed but that the author remembered how, in his own college days, he was bewildered by the richness and fullness of his devotional manual, and thought that perhaps there were others in his position who might feel the need of some such book and who had no leisure to prepare one for themselves. SEWANEE, TENN., ADVENT, 1885. |