PREFACE. THIS little volume is composed of addresses which were delivered to audiences, mainly of young people, in Cleveland and Boston. I have deemed it best not to change their style, but to send them forth as they were spoken. The simple directness of counsel and appeal which marks them as addresses will aid rather than hinder their usefulness. To myself all of these addresses are fragrant with tender and ineffaceable memories of the many young people for whom they were first written, and freighted with warm affection for the many other young people to whom they were last spoken. In the love and sympathy of all these responsive hearers, I have found continual comfort and inspiration in my work. BOSTON, 1893. |