PREFATORY NOTE.
I have here placed on record a brief sketch of my life, in which may be found some passages that will interest my friends, and possibly instruct and profit others.
My aim has been to make the record as true and faithful as possible in so narrow a compass. And my belief is that the least pleasant of the circumstances and events here chronicled may teach a lesson that will help rather than hinder the spread of the heavenly doctrines, and the consequent progress of the Lord’s kingdom on earth.
In nearly every step which I have taken on life’s journey for the last sixty years or more, I have earnestly invoked the Divine guidance. But work has been laid upon me from time to time which I would gladly have left undone, but felt that I could not without disloyalty to the Master and an un-
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