PREFACE.
OUR title, though savouring of quaintness, is yet
in keeping with
the object of this volume. As we press onward
in the journey of
life, to each of us the path is new and strange.
Often it is rough
and thorny; often it winds through places beset with
difficulties
and danger; often the sky is so dark that we can scarcely
see the
narrow line upon which our advancing footsteps may
rest in safety.
As “Finger-Posts on the Way of Life,”
pointing the wary traveller in
the right direction, has this little book been written.
It does not,
professedly, take the high mission of the preacher;
yet, while its
end is to guide in natural life, the author is never
unmindful of
the fact that all natural life is for the sake of
spiritual life,
and that no one can live well in the true sense, who
does not live
for Heaven. He trusts, therefore, that while
these “finger-posts”
indicate the path in which to walk safely through
the world, they
will point, as well, to the narrow way that leadeth
to Life Eternal.
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