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Preface
Oh, why did not someone tell me sooner?" wrote a lady
who had passed through some very trying spiritual
experiences that had been made far harder because they had
been misinterpreted. It had been tile Author's privilege
to explain some things through which she was passing. She
had experienced great relief of mind and spirit by coming
to look on her troubles in a new and clearer light.
About the same time another person, after receiving an
explanation of difficulties and being instructed how to
meet them wrote, "If I had known these things years
ago I might have been spared many things and my life
thereby made far happier than it has been."
The receipt of hundreds of such letters and the personal
testimony of other hundreds of people through the years
spent by the Author in evangelistic work and the twenty
one years on his bed as the result of accidental injuries,
have convinced him that there is much need for a treatise
covering some of the vital principles of life and
experience common to so many of us.
It has been the Author's purpose to illuminate, as far as
his ability goes, the Christian pathway, as well as to
point out some of the underlying principles of Christian
life and experience. If he has succeeded in doing so in a
way that will be helpful to others to an extent comparable
to the gratifying results of his more personal work and
correspondence he will feel he has been well rewarded for
his labors. He hopes he has succeeded in making clear the
way into the joyfully victorious life and that the reader
may walk life's way with the "everlasting joy"
that belongs to those who have learned the Secret of the
Singing Heart.
—C.
W. Naylor
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