Excerpt from Christian Unity in Effort This book records some personal thoughts and beliefs resulting from such reading and listening to the views of others as is prae tically possible in and following the well occupied hours of an active business life. It includes quotations from the Bible, and from other boo-ks that have: been interesting and helpful. The repetitions that appear here and there throughout the book should aid in making its. Purpose clearer. It represents a conviction that every man and woman should acquire by individual effort such simple religious knowledge and personal faith as is essential to a well rounded life here and to a right preparation for what may be beyond; and that intelligent individual observation and thought will make plain the need for organized Christian unity in effort. In this age of religious unrest and craving for better things no one should hold in selfish privacy any thought or experience that, if made public, might in any way be helpful to another. If what is here written shall help one ear nest and sincere seeker after truth to rise from an earthly atmosphere of indifference, dependence or doubt into a higher and purer life Of intelligent faith, this book will have justified its existence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.