This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871. Excerpt: ... IS MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS BELIEF? A LECTURE DELIVERED BEFORE THE MEMBERS OF THE HAMILTON MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, ON THE EVENING OF THE l8TH OF FEBRUARY, 1851. BY THE REV. JOHN BAYNE, OF KNOX'S CHURCH, GALT. PREFACE. LECTURE on man's responsibility for his belief, herewith submitted to the Public, was delivered to the young men of the "Hamilton 1 Mercantile Library Association," as one of a series y" for which the members of that Association, with a commendable desire to find suitable occupation for their leisure hours, and with a view to their intellectual and moral improvement, had secured the services of various ministers and other individuals, during the past winter. Soon after its delivery, the managing Committee of the Association, requested the author to allow them to publish it in pamphlet form. This request he felt that he could not refuse. In acceding to it, however, he explained to the Committee, what he would now also explain to those who may honor it with a perusal, that it was not composed with a view to publication, and that, had he been appearing before the public of his own accord, he would have felt it desirable to illustrate, and fortify at much greater length, his views on some of the controverted points of which it treats. Within the compass of a single lecture, it was possible for him to do little more than sketch the outline of his argument, --rather suggesting to his hearers the mode in which the subject should be investigated and decided, than professing to exhaust it. As it is, however, its brevity may be a greater recommendation in the view of some to its perusal, than it was in the author's to its publication. And it is now submitted to those who take an interest in such subjects, in the hope that it may serve to confirm...