FOR MISSIONARY USE. EDITED BY THE AUTHOR OF "LETTERS TO A MAN BEWILDERED AMONG MANY COUNSELLORS." General Protestant Episcopal S. School Union, 762 BROADWAY. HARVAHU COLLEGE APR 25 1888 LIBRARY. John Harvey Treat. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, BY DANIEL DANA, JE, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. RENNIE, LINDSAY & CO., L PREFACE. As the minister of the Church in these United States, and especially in a rural district, goes in and out among the people, he encounters many states of mind which are more or less modified by the age and country in which we live. The writer of most of the pages which follow, has ventured to hope that a few familiar tracts upon the topics so often suggested by plain people, might be found useful. To this end he has stated difficulties in religion, and objections to the Church, as nearly as possible in the very terms which are used by those who allege them; and then he has attempted to clear the difficulty, and to answer the objection, not in the way of a complete exposition or refutation, but by such suggestions as may incline the reader to study more systematic books. |