Excerpt from Studies in Texts, Vol. 1 of 6: For Family, Church, and School Ardent, enthusiastic youth, Fit herald of the glorious truth That God for man has died. So even in that first rude way of mine some good must have been done by the Spirit that has not scrupled to employ even rams' horns for the announcement of divine doom. Recollections of my own impetuosity, I may indeed say violence, have always enabled me to take a kindly view of the least controlled ways of young beginners like myself. I do not like a beginner to be too staid. Young trees should grow a good deal of wood. Heaven knows they will have pruning enough by-and-by, and not always by expert hands or the most refined instruments. 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.