Bondage To Freedom - Forward
Forward
If a publication is produced without a purpose then it had better not be printed. This study is prepared with a purpose, and that purpose is to teach how to enter into a life of victory over the besetting problems which so persistently mar the life experience of mankind today.
It is not a study telling what you should be. There is little need for that for the average person, unless he is devoid of any ambition to be a better individual than he is, already knows what he wants to be and is striving toward the objective. If the reader is a member of any church with high ideals and standards, then the realization of what one should be is even more clear. Not only is the realization more clear, but the demand upon the person to achieve that ideal is even more pressing.
The problem is: How shall I achieve that which in my inmost consciousness I know to be right and which I desire above all else to achieve? That is the question, and there are countless thousands of people today who are pressed with this question and are seeking the answer to it.
If you are such a one, then this study is for you. It is written, not from the mere theorizing of one who, from an armchair, has speculated on a way to victory which appears to his mind to be the way, but by one who, having sought with intense earnestness to reach the highest ideals of Christian living, finally found the way itself of deliverance from the bondage of his own evil nature. Therefore, it is a tried and proven procedure which is presented here. Not only is it a tried and proven procedure, but it is also the Scriptural procedure. Furthermore, it is a procedure which, when once presented to other like-struggling souls, has proved as effective in their experience as in that of the author of this publication.
It is in response to the insistent urging of those who, through following out the way as set forth in this publication, have found for themselves the solution to life's problem, that this study goes into print. It is the most earnest prayer of the author and all such that it will do for you what it has done for us.