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Prefatory Note

This little book is meant to reflect the dealings of God with the heart of his child ; in other words, to be a book of Christian experience.

The holy activities of the age will never displace this truth, that the Christian draws his abiding comforts from the religion of his heart. To assure himself of those comforts, he needs often to turn aside from the sympathetic influences of the outward religious movements, and find himself alone with God. There he may ask himself how much of what he calls his religion is religion; how much of it is born of the people, and how much of God; how much would abide, and how much perish, with the dying away of the public stir. In this dealing with the vitalities of religion there is found the strongest incitement to its public activities, and the true secret of patient perseverance in such activities.

So far as the subject of these pages is concerned, no apology is needed. Reasons enough exist why Christian experience should remain one of the standing topics of religious literature.

Heaven. First — Things which Eye hath not seen nor

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