FOREWARD

During the last 25 years of the nineteenth century and a score of years of the twentieth, there lived and died three great men of God whom I knew-men whom God has undoubtedly numbered among the foremost of His heavenly host. The 1st was Edward McKendree Bounds, author of this present volume and the another "Spiritual Life" Books. The second was Claud L. Chilton, minister for galore years in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and a musical musician of religious music of appreciable note. The third, Clement C. Cary, preacher man and editor, lost his life in an automobile accident in 1922. The fourth was Dr. B. F. Haynes, minister, editor and author, who died in Nashville, in 1923.

What Dr. Thomas Goodwin, the Puritan, was to Strong,