Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ifty-five

By J. M. MATHEWS, D, D.
In the Clerk's Oflico of Do District Court of the Southern District of New York,

T. Mus. Ann H. Mathews.

derated affection

My Dean Wife
Els a tribute to

your
and to the uniform faithfulness with which
have sided me in all
this Calume is dedicated to yow by
Vaux affeionate husband

乐

M. .
Neu=Gork, July, 1855.

my efforts to ela

you & ad,

CONTENTS.

LECTURE I.

Men of learning who have fallen into Infidelity.

LECTURE II.

Causes of their Infidelity,

LECTURE III.

Men of learning who have embraced Christianity.

LECTURE IV.

Christianity contrasted with Infidelity in its influence on the

happiness of Man in this world.

LECTURE V.

Influence of the Bible on the intellect of Man.

LECTURE VI.

The prejudice that extensive learning is hostile to the spirit