Excerpt from Things to Be Thought Of: Addressed to the Young<br><br>I fear too many of my young friends have never seriously asked themselves the question, Why was I sent into the world They are content to live for their own pleasure, and rather feel as if serious thought on any subject Was unnecessary at their time of life, and that as care and anxiety Will come some time, perhaps their best plan is to enjoy them selves now, and let the future take care of itself. You may perhaps feel that it is a gloomy thing to be religious - that, at least, you would rather not think of it just yet - that it involves a life of constant self-denial, and so meanwhile you Will enjoy the pleasures natural to your time of life, and When older, it Will be time enough to think of these things. Advice and exhortation to such thoughtless ones, to consider the shortness and uncertainty of life, and ~the awful importance of eternity, are alike unheeded.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.