THE NEW YORK 163616 ABTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1899. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1841, By GOULD, KENDALL AND LINCOLN, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. WEST BROOKFIELD: C. A. MIRICK AND CO., PRINTERS. PR E F A CЕ. MORAL and religious error assumes such various shapes, at the present day, especially in this vicinity, as to render it highly desirable that the young should be able to detect it, in all its aspects and windings. Its apostles, too, are as numerous as its forms and shapes; and no men are more active-perhaps I might even say, self-denying. Let the young, then, be put on their guard; and let parents and teachers be guarded on their behalf. To assist parents and teachers, and the youth of our country, in this respect, is the leading object of the following disclosure. It is not a hasty production. Nearly ten years have passed away since the last of the leading events which it records, transpired. In the mean time, the manuscript has been shown to candid, ingenious, and critical men of most of the principal Christian denominations, and in almost every |