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by Hannah Whitall Smith

Dedication

For Frank’s little brother and sisters, his cousins, and the circle of his loving friends, this book has been cotnpiled, with many earnest prayers that they may learn f’om its pages the secret of the happy life they so well remember, and that they may make this secret their own.

It is essentially a boy’s book, a7id must be judged from a hoy’s standpoint. But if Frank’s young life can but tell the” old, old story in all its precious fulness, let none complain of the youth of the teacher, nor of the youthfulness of his ways.

And may this history of the struggles, the failures and the victories of one whom they so loved, and who so earnestly desired day by day to be found walking in the Highway of Holiness, cheer and aid his young Christian friends, who like him are seeking to live up to the Bible standard, and who long to know that “victory which overco7neth the world,’’’ and that” life which is hid with Christ in God P^

H. W. S.

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