Publisher's Synopsis
To make the vision clearer, and the way plainer for all who are seeking the true path - is the purpose of this volume. The editor has sought through means of allegory, sermon, essay, and lighter narrative - to lead the earnest thinker into a just appreciation of social and moral duties - for no man can walk safely through this world, who, through neglect of these, lives in cold indifference to his neighbor's good. The true path is the path of self-denial; yet none enter this path who do not, sooner or later, find that the way is smoother than was expected, and that instead of leading through a desert land, it winds pleasantly amid flowers and greenness. Timothy Shay Arthur was a popular 19th-century American author most famous for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There. He was also the author of dozens of stories for Godey's Lady's Book. Arthur did much to articulate and disseminate the values, beliefs, and habits that defined respectable life in America. Arthur was one of the most popular and widely read author of his time.
