Excerpt from Lives of the Apostles and Early Martyrs of the Church, Vol. 1 Excellent as is this lesson, and important as it is to impress the mind early with the con viction that it is necessary to resign our own ways for God's, and to sacrifice our own wills in obedience to His commands, it seems cer tain, that something more should be added. Young persons who evince a willingness to conform to the rules of self-control merit beyond all doubt every encouragement; and, instead of confining ourselves to assuring them that they will receive hereafter the promised reward of the righteous, they should, as far as it is possible, be allowed a foretaste of heaven even here it should be permitted to them to experience, that, as with the practice of divine wisdom, so with its study, all her ways are pleasantness, and all her paths peace. 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.