Excerpt from Lectures on the Shorter Catechism of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, Vol. 1 of 2: Addressed to Youth As to the publication of these lectures, the author can truly say that he has had much hesitation. When they were delivered, he had evidence enough that they were popular, and in a measure useful. But he doubted whether they were calculated to be either acceptable or beneficial, if committed to the press unless they should undergo such alterations as he had neither time nor inclination to make. He tried the experiment of publishing the first of the series in the Christian Advocate, with a distinct intimation, that it implied no pledge that even a se cond would be added. The lecture published appear ed to be well received; and not only has the insertion of the entire series in that miscellany been considered by many as adding value to the work, but the au thor has been earnestly requested by his friends, in various parts of the country, to publish the whole, as he now does, in a separate volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.