Excerpt from God and the Future Life: The Reasonableness of Christianity MY dear children, - Some of you are now at the age when you are about to leave the hands of the pious mother who has carefully and lovingly instructed you in your Christian duties, and tried to fix you in correct habits of life. She has taught you that the Christian religion prescribes the true rule of living; that the practices it inculcates are necessary for the proper conduct of your life here, and for happy development in a life hereafter; that you Should regard God as a loving Father, and his commands as the rule of your conduct. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.