True Stories of Young Christians

With every one of the characters in this book except one I am personally acquainted. The characters themselves, or their near relatives, gave me their experiences in personal conversation. I have not used their real names so that there would be no embarrassment to them or other persons mentioned in connection with them.

My purpose is to help boys and girls to know how to live a successful Christian life by showing how other boys and girls lived it. These characters had their problems, for they were ordinary folk like the rest of us; and sometimes they failed for a time, usually because they did not know how to succeed. The reader may be taught by their failures as well as be inspired by their victories. All of them were eventually successful because they set themselves earnestly to serve God, and to such God gives abundant help. Everyone proved to his satisfaction the wisdom of Solomon’s words, “Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.”

If these stories shall draw some boys and girls to Christ, or help some struggling young Christians to victory, or inspire some Christian viii]]youths to a more loving devotion to Jesus Christ and his work in the world, great will be the joy of

THE AUTHOR