Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from What Ails the World: A Message From Out the Silence
Many of the author's former readers will be sur prised at a book like this from him. So is he, also. Nothing like it ever entered his mind until just after midnight on March 2, 1917, when he first felt the Presence, with which he seemed to commune as really and truly as if audible; but just how it came is as much a mystery now (fifteen months later), as it was at the first.
It came from out the Silence in some way which for clearness and impressiveness surpasses the power of language to describe, yet there is reason to hope that the same favoring Presence which gave it such weight of meaning and reality to the writer, may also attend his effort as it unites with that of others who are seriously seeking the certitude of truth, and longing to launch from the narrow limits of the past into the larger possessions of the future.
Do not try to read it amid interruptions. The first stroke of a wireless call at sea is the signal for silence and attention. Some expressions will seem awkward and crude. The writer took some liberty to smooth the phraseology and modernize the style here and there, but a little patience and forbearance will be needed now and then, including a willingness to be led along unusual paths and give respectful attention to the testimony of an eye-witness. It is the meekness and docility of a little child that has the promise of receiving the kingdom of heaven.
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