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"FRANK, OR THE RECORD OF A HAPPY LIFE;' ABIDING IN CHRIST;"

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WILLARD TRACT REPOSITORY,
BEACON HILL PLACE, BOSTON.

239 FOURTH AVENUE, NEW YORK,
1323 ARCH ST., PHILADELPHIA.

SHAFTESBURY HALL, TORONTO, CANADA.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875,

By CHARLES CULLIS,

In the Clerk's Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington,

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THIS is not a theological book. I frankly confess I have never studied Theology, and do not understand its methods nor its terms. But the Lord has taught me experimentally and practically certain lessons out of His Word, which have greatly helped me in my Christian life, and have made it a very happy one. And I want to tell these lessons, in the best way I can, in order that some others may be helped into a happy life also. I cannot bear to keep the secret to myself.

I do not want to change the theological views of a single individual. I dare say most of my readers know far more about Theology than I do myself, and perhaps you may discover abundance of what will seem to you to be theological mistakes. But let me beg of you not to mind these. Try, instead, to get at the experimental point of that which I have tried to say, and if that is practical and helpful, forgive the blundering way in

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which it is expressed. Throw over it all the mantle of Christian love. Say, if you choose, Well, she is only a woman, and cannot be expected, therefore, to understand Theology;"-but remember that God sometimes reveals, even to babes, secrets that He has hidden from the wise and prudent.

I have committed my book to the Lord, and have asked Him to counteract all in it that is wrong, and to let only that which is true find entrance into any heart. It is sent out in tender sympathy and yearning love for all the struggling weary ones in the Church of Christ, and its message goes right from my heart to theirs. I have given the best I have, and could do no more. May the blessed Holy Spirit use it to teach some of my readers the true secret of a happy life!

H. W. S.

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