DEDICATION

To the sacred memory of the pioneers of the great Restoration
Movement of the nineteenth century, who forsook the religious
associations of a lifetime and cheerfully endured poverty,
persecution and every hardship in their endeavor to restore Christian
union on the primitive gospel, and who held forth a beacon-light that
helped me to find the truth in its simplicity as it is in Christ
Jesus.



My Soul Struggle in Symbolism

Upon the fly-leaf of my Bible I find the following, which was written
shortly after I emerged from the stormy sea of heartrending agony
through which I passed in my conflict with sectarianism, rationalism,
infidelity and doubt. It was not written for the public, but was
simply an effort of my soul to express in a measure, through human
symbols, the painful experiences through which it passed. It will
seem extravagant language to those who have never had their souls
lacerated by doubt and despair. But the sensitive souls who have
endured similar experiences will understand, and it is with the hope
of reaching and helping them that it is given to the public.

"A TEN YEARS' JOURNEY

From the childhood land of ignorant innocence to the kingdom of
Christ: by way of deserts of negation; mountains of assumption;