These addresses were given in the United Church on the Green, NewHaven, Connecticut, on the Sunday evenings of Lent. The audiences weremade up largely of men, many of them Yale students. I have brought theaddresses together in this little book with the hope that they may havea certain value in their appeal to a wider audience of young men who inschool and college, in their homes and in business life, are makingthose determinations which will decide the issue for them in thoseexacting years which are before us.
It has been given to us to live through one of the great crises of theworld's history. In these days the hearts of men are being tried as byfire. If it is "wood, hay and stubble" that we are putting into ourpersonal moral structures, into the purposes and methods which rule ourindustrial life and into our national temper and fiber, then we mayexpect to see our work destroyed. The only qualities which will standthe test are those qualities which are symbolized by "gold, silver andprecious stones."
C. R. B.
Yale University.