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PREFACE.

THIS little tale was written between two and three years ago, in the hope that it might help to call the attention of wiser and better men than I am, to the questions which are now agitating the minds of the rising generation, and to the absolute necessity of solving them at once and earnestly, unless we would see the faith of our forefathers crumble away beneath the combined influence of new truths which are fancied to be incompatible with it, and new. mistakes as to its real essence. That this can be done, I believe and know: if I had not believed it, I would never have put pen to paper on the subject.

I believe that the ancient Creed, the eternal Gospel, will stand, and conquer, and prove its might in this age, as it has in every other for eighteen hundred years, by claiming, and subduing, and organizing those young afnarchic forces, which now, unconscious of their parentage, rebel against Him to whom they owe their being.