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Addressing the Young Men's Association of the City of Utica, the author notes, "I thank you for the polite notice which you have taken of my Lectures on Religion in its Relation to the Present Life. The title is intended to discriminate my subject from what is discussed in churches, and which is, perhaps too exclusively, Religion in its Relation to a Future Life ... Churches occupy the same relation to morality as common schools occupy to literature; hence they should present morality under all its aspects. With unimportant exceptions, they are our only schools of morals; the science which regulates health, peace, and prosperity. This accounts for the experimental fact, that men who abstain from churches are, as a class, unsuccessful in business, unhappy in their families, and liable to sudden casualties. To the source of so much practical benefit, I therefore intend no captious or ungrateful remark; and in the hope that my brief discourses, to which you listened kindly, may not lose all their supposed interest when exhibited in print, I cheerfully present them to you, agreeably to the request of your executive committee." This book presents extracts of some the author's lectures to members of the Young Men's Association of the City of Utica, New York.

Conduct of life.