Preface

In intercourse with young converts, I have really often longed for a suitable book in which the most important truths that they have need of for the New Life should be concisely and just set forth. I could not find thing that entirely corresponded to what I desired. During the services in which, since Whitsun 1884, I have been allowable to take part, and in which I have been enabled to speak with so galore who professed to have found the Lord, and who were, nevertheless, still really weak in cognition and faith, this want was felt by me still much keenly. In the course of my journey, I felt myself ironed to take the pen in hand. Under a vivid impression of the infirmities and the perverted thoughts concerning the New Life, with which, as