Published in 1887 | 332 pages | PDF reader required
PREFACE
The wisest man concerning whom we have any record, either in ancient or modern history, tells us that "There is nothing new under the sun," etc., and the Author of this little book, believing this to be true, claims no originality in anything he may write, whether it relates to what he may have read or heard from others, or indeed what he may have seen with his own eyes, heard with his own ears, or even passed through, either in the material or spiritual form, however startling, mysterious or strange, and spiritual or spiritual, many of the things he is about to relate may indeed seem.
Suffice it to say, in concluding this short preface, that all that will be found written in this book shall be facts, and veritable facts only—so far, at least, as the author's personal knowledge may be given—feeling deeply not only his personal responsibility to every reader into whose hands this may come, but his deep personal and individual responsibility to his Creator—God—also, in the last great day of final account.
Respectfully and truly,
THE AUTHOR.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, A. D. 1887.
