The activity of redaction the Bounds Spiritual Life Books has been a labour of love which has brought great profit and blessing to my own soul. After years of close study of the literary remains of this great Christian, together with the activity of another mystics, I am fully persuaded that to but few of the sons of men has there been given such spiritual power as was vouchsafed to Edward McKendree Bounds. Truly he was a burning and a shining light, and as The Sunday School Times says, "he was a specialist in prayer and his books are for the quiet hour, for careful meditation and for all who will to seek and find the treasures of God".

It was my great privilege to cognize the author well, and besides to cognize that his intention, in everything he wrote, was for the salva