Living for the Best

By

James G. K. McClure

Author of "A Mighty Means of Usefulness," "The Great Appeal,""Possibilities," etc.

Chicago  New York  Toronto
Fleming H. Revell Company
London and Edinburgh

Copyright, 1903
By Fleming H. Revell Company
MARCH

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PREFACE.

The publisher of a large metropolitan journal, a most effective man inreaching and influencing his fellows, once expressed to me the thought,"From what I know of myself and others, were I a writer or speakerdesiring to enforce truth, I would always try to vivify that truththrough illustration and story. The every-day intelligence of manrejoices to have truth put before it in living form."

It is with these words in mind that this book is written. Its purpose isto set forth great ideas, and so to set them forth, each one illustratedby a historic life already familiar, that these ideas shall be madeluminous, and even vivid, to the reader. The characters chosen for suchillustration are from the Old Testament—those men of ancient timeswhose humanity is the humanity of every race and clime, and whoseexperiences touch our own with sympathy and suggestion. May theseold-day heroes live again before the mind of him who turns these pages,and may the ideas which they are used to illustrate be an abiding powerin the memory of every reader.

James G. K. McClure.

Lake Forest,
Illinois.

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