Ryle's address to young men, lightly updated for the twenty-first century - the dangers he named have not changed, and he names them without flinching. Read more.
J.C. Ryle was a faithful evangelical and a prolific writer as well as Bishop of Liverpool, and alongside the larger works that have never gone out of print he wrote shorter pieces of great value. This series produces them, lightly updated, for the present-day church.
Thoughts for Young Men is the most direct of them. Ryle sets out the particular dangers of youth - pride, the love of pleasure, the fear of other men's opinion, the habit of putting off - and the particular means of grace that answer each. The needs he identified have not changed, which is why this is still the book to put in a young man's hands.
