AND

How to Spend Them.

A LECTURE.

BY

THE REV. GEORGE POOLE, B.A.,

Queen's College, Cambridge.

"The wise extending their enquiries wide,
See how both states are by connection tied;
Fools view but part, and not the whole survey:
So crowd existence all into a day."

LONDON:

WERTHEIM, MACINTOSH, AND Hunt, 24, PATERNOSTER ROW,
AND 23, HOLLES STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE.

M.DCCC.LVIII.

270. c.
c. 260.

PREFACE.

THE following Address on Youthful Days has been delivered to two or three Young Men's Christian Associations, and well wishers of the young have desired its publication. A growing conviction in the Author's mind of the importance of early life has induced him to comply with the request. For, when the issues of thought are contemplated, it cannot be denied that should the LECTURE give rise to one holy emotion in the heart of any young man, it will not be a superfluous publication, even in an age abounding with books.

May the Great Teacher condescend to employ it as a Lesson for the imparting of truth,-and ever cause the Writer and Reader to pray, "What in me is dark, illumine; what is low,

raise and support."

Burntwood Parsonage, near Lichfield,

January, 1858.