I wish this book had fallen into my hands fifty years ago when I was a young Christian, but now I have it and have profited from it, realizing that its lessons, basic, true, and energizing, are relevant for disciples of the Lord Jesus at every age. I am thinking this moment of a housewife to whom I spoke earlier this week. She has just begun to attend the congregation and has the simplest faith. She is beginning to read Christian books; she is strong in her moral convictions, but her understanding