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Eli Jones.
Sybil Jones.Eli and Sibyl Jones:
THEIR LIFE AND WORK.
BY
RUFUS M. JONES.
In Memoriam.
PHILADELPHIA:
PORTER & COATES.
Copyright, 1889,
BY PORTER & COATES.
TO
THE SWEET AND SHINING MEMORY
OF
PLINY EARLE CHASE,
WHOSE SCHOLARSHIP AND CHRISTIAN MANHOOD INSPIRED
YOUNG MEN TO RICHER AND PURER LIVES, AND
WHO AS TEACHER POINTED STUDENTS
TO THE
GREAT MASTER,
THIS BOOK
IS
Affectionately Inscribed
BY HIS PUPIL.
PREFACE.
In our busy and material lives we all need to be remindedat times that there have been and still areamong us those who have deadened love of self, whosestruggle on earth, far from being to amass any kind oftreasures, is to bring before as many human beings aspossible the great plan of salvation, the means of elevationfrom degradation to lofty Christian individuality,and the source of a power and a love which are makingall things new in proportion as submission is giventhereto.
We are not always conscious of the strength exertedaround us by seemingly trivial forces, but