C.H. Spurgeon said of Bridges work on Proverbs, "THIS IS
THE BEST WORK ON PROVERBS. The Scriptural method of exposition so well carried
out by Bridges renders all his writings very suggestive to ministers. While
explaining the passage in hand, he sets other portions of the Word in new
lights." Bridges himself, in 1859, issued the first nine chapters of his
exposition of Proverbs and entitled it A MANUAL FOR THE YOUNG "in
accordance with suggestions repeatedly made to him." Enlarged type-face
for easier reading with the addition of the extremely rare piece an Address to
Young Persons After Confirmation, also written by Bridges, which is an
outstanding challenge for young men and women to take up their cross daily and
follow the Lord.
