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THROUGH THE Gare ок Соор; or, Christ and Conduct. 68 pages. MORNING AND EvENING THOUGHTS. 72 pages. These titles are furnished in two editions. Bindings: art paper, extended | covers, 4x6 inches, fifteen cents; combination cloth, 4%х6% inches, fifty cents.

Tue Ілек TRIUMPHANT. 112 pages. From Poverty TO POWER. 112 pages. Byways or BLESSEDNESS. 212 pages. ALL THESE THINGS ADDED. 160 pages. m SHELDON UNIVERSITY PRESS LIBERTYVILLE, ILLINOIS e TATATATATATATATAIATATATATATAIATAIATAIATATATATATATOIATATATATATATATATATATATATATAIAIAIAIATAIATA% иек eee THROUGH THE GATE OF GOOD oR CHRIST AND CONDUCT BY JAMES ALLEN Ў NITY 509891.

LIB go's Summit, 15500 LIBERTYVILLE, ILL. SHELDON UNIVERSITY Copyright Sheldon University Press 1909 All Rights Reserved The Lakesive Press В. В. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY CHICAGO 558 FOREWORD HE series of articles which com- prise this book appeared in serial form in the third volume of “ The Light of Reason,” and it is in compliance with the earnest request of readers and the importunities of friends that I now reprint them in book form, both in paper covers for those who wish to distribute it in a general way, and in leatherette boards for those who will be pleased to have it in a more enduring as well as artistic dress; in which form also it will be found suitable for presentation purposes.

The articles are reprinted as they were originally published, with the addition of the Introduction. JAMES ALLEN. vil CONTENTS PAGE FOREWORD 4 ; ; ? vil INTRODUCTION . : 1 2 хі THE САТЕ AND THE WAY 2 f 15 THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS. ; 26 THE YOKE AND THE BURDEN . й 38 THE WORD AND THE DOER . ; 4T THE VINE AND THE BRANCHES Р 55 SALVATION THIS DAY . . . 61 в > وج‎ А Г M Li D KAR Я INTRODUCTION HE genius of the present age in matters spiritual is towards sim- plicity, and the hunger of the human heart is for Truth, naked and uninvolved.

That hunger will even- tually bring about (is already bringing about) its own satisfaction, and here and there are men and women who, passing through the Gateway of Self-conquest, are entering into possession of the Tran- scendent Righteousness.

The closing years of the nineteenth century witnessed the culmination of Formalism, and the spiritual reaction is now firmly established. Already “the end Of old faiths and beginning of the new ' , is discernible to all who have removed from their mental vision somewhat of the textual dust of dying creeds, and ХІ ENS INTRODUCTION have penetrated, however faintly, that sublime region of Truth which is dis- coverable only by practice, and which is made manifest by pure thoughts and holy deeds.

The universal decay of effete religious systems which the world is witnessing to-day is matter for rejoicing; it is the death which precedes Life; it is the passing away of the false in order that the True may be more fully revealed.

The True can, at worst, but remain hidden. It remains forever. Its invincibility cannot be qualified, and he who has had but one momentary glimpse of the True can never again be anxious for its safety. That about which men are anxious is the false, which they mistake for the True, and this, in spite of all their anxiety, must fade away at last.

In the lives of all the Great Teachers we see a manifestation of that Universal Truth, the majesty and splendour of which is as yet but dimly comprehended by mankind, but which must, during the gradual transformation and transmuta- tion which the accumulating ages shall хіі INTRODUCTION effect, at last become the possession of all.

That Truth, as manifested by the Teachers, was written by them, as it only can be written, in thoughts and deeds of the loftiest moral excellence which have been permanently impressed upon the mind of mankind by their embodiment in preceptial form.