(...)" ADVERTISEMENT. The argument of the following discourses was read before an Association of ministers, who requested their publication. The view of Christian education maintained in the discourses, is certainly different from that which is commonly held by our churches, and yet it is confidently believed to be inconsistent with no scheme of doctrine generally held or accepted. For it is a somewhat singular phenomenon that the current view of Christian nurture is no necessary or even proper inference from any current doctrine or opinion. (...)"