Chapter I: Preface

To men who teach and write the oft-recurring question comes, How can we so influence others in heart and intellect as to help them reach a loftier plane of thought and action? As every life has its Gethsemane of sorrow and tragedy, so every life has its morning star of hope and its mainspring of faith.

Our salvation, then, and the lifting up and saving of others is the exercise of that vital principle which has its incarnation in hope. The use of this still further causes the mountains of difficulty that loom portentous in our pathway and tower to the heavens to crumble into mole-hills.

The soul is made optimistic and the life beautified by its possession, while the ear is brought, spiritually speaking, within range of the victorious shout, "More than conquerors!" and the new song, the song of Moses and the Lamb.

CONTENTS

I. The Appointment
II. Mr. Melvin's Marriage and Teachings
III. Secretary-Treasurer Thompson's Death--A Surprise
from the Far-off East
IV. 203 Metre Hill and Mukden
V. The Battle of Mukden--and Call of Mr. Devoau as
Associate Minister
VI. Further Teachings and how they are Estimated

ALTER EGO