I Promise

De: F. B. Meyer

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

I am exceedingly glad that Rev. F. B. Meyer, has given this little volume to the public. I feel that so far as Christian Endeavorers are concerned his pen could not possibly have found employment upon a more important theme, and I am equally confident that there is no one whose wise and winning words will be listened to more eagerly, or heeded more willingly. The man and the theme have been united in a most happy way, and the result is a little volume of exceeding value. The prayer-meeting Covenant Pledge is the mainstay of Christian Endeavor. It is to Christian Endeavorers what Magna Charta was to British liberty, what the Constitution of the United States is to the American patriot, what the Mayflower compact was to the Puritans, what the National Covenant was to the Covenanters. The societies that adopt and live up to the covenant pledge with reasonable fidelity have always prospered. No society that has ignored or weakened the pledge has long continued to do a conspicuously good work. Whatever theories or prejudices may exist concerning it, the facts of the history of the eighteen years of Christian Endeavor are all on the side of the Christian Endeavor pledge. To have this fundamental feature of Christian Endeavor expounded, explained, and illuminated by such an author, is indeed a boon to the Christian Endeavor world. I trust that this little volume will be read by hundreds of thousands of Christian Endeavorers, that those who are faithful and true will be strengthened in their fidelity, that any who are weak and wavering may be braced by these chapters to new and more strenuous endeavor, and that all, as they see the reasonableness, scripturalness, and absolute necessity of our covenant pledge to our best endeavor, will with renewed zeal, trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ, go forward in his strength to do whatever he would like to have them do. FRANCIS E. CLARK.