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Title: Five Young Men
Messages of Yesterday for the Young Men of To-day

Author: Charles Reynolds Brown

Release Date: July 30, 2010 [EBook #33296]

Language: English

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Five Young Men

Messages of Yesterday for
the Young Men of To-day

By

CHARLES REYNOLDS BROWN

_Dean of the School of Religion, Yale University_

NEW YORK CHICAGO TORONTO

Fleming H. Revell Company

LONDON AND EDINBURGH

Copyright, 1917, by

FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY

New York: 158 Fifth Avenue
Chicago: 17 North Wabash Ave.
London: 21 Paternoster Square
Edinburgh: 75 Princes Street

_To the Young Men_

_of Yale_

_Whose friendship I have highly
valued and in whose future
I feel the warmest interest_

Preface

These addresses were given in the United Church on the Green, New
Haven, Connecticut, on the Sunday evenings of Lent. The audiences were
made up largely of men, many of them Yale students. I have brought the
addresses together in this little book with the hope that they may have
a certain value in their appeal to a wider audience of young men who in
school and college, in their homes and in business life, are making
those determinations which will decide the issue for them in those
exacting years which are before us.

It has been given to us to live through one of the great crises of the
world's history. In these days the hearts of men are being tried as by
fire. If it is "wood, hay and stubble" that we are putting into our
personal moral structures, into the purposes and methods which rule our
industrial life and into our national temper and fiber, then we may
expect to see our work destroyed. The only qualities which will stand
the test are those qualities which are symbolized by "gold, silver and
precious stones."

C. R. B.

_Yale University._

Contents

I. THE YOUNG MAN WHO WAS A FAVOURITE SON
II. THE YOUNG MAN WHO WAS AN ATHLETE
III. THE YOUNG MAN WHO BECAME KING
IV