Introduction

This little book is sent forth with the earnest prayer that God may make it a blessing to many of the young people of the Society of Christian Endeavor, as well as to all others who are longing for a better apprehension of Christ and what he may be to them.

There is no claim made in it to literary excellence; if any one should read it in search of this, he will find much in it to criticise. This is not in any sense a discussion. I have no contention with the brother who may differ with me; I only long to exalt Christ.

The words were first spoken with a desire that they might be used of God to lead some one into closer fellowship with our Lord, and, now that they are to be placed in book form, the desire is only intensified, vm

INTRODUCTION,

Let me say very clearly that, while these chapters are the record of an experience, it will be disastrous to some of my readers to seek to duplicate it in all of its details but may I also add that it is possible for every Christian to have the consciousness of a definite surrender to Christ, or of a present yielding to his control, and from that point the life may be overflowing with blessing, if only we hold to unwavering trust in him?

These words were first spoken at the Nashville Quiet Hour in the summer of 1898. The scenes witnessed there will never be forgotten by many of us. It is confidently believed that the lives of many of the young people were changed by the Holy Ghost in the revelation of Christ.

The addresses are now sent forth in this form only because the requests have been numerous that this should be done.

May God’s blessing be upon the book.

Philadelphia, 1898.