To the hopeless, homeless prodigals who have wandered far from their Father's house, only to find soul-hunger and rags and shame; to those who have been led by Satan to believe that their blessed God has forgotten them, and does not care that they perish; to those with whom life has gone so hard that all moral ideals have faded out, and all prospects of heaven have vanished, till, in sheer despair, they do not knock at the Savior's door of mercy; and to all sinners of every age or race, or degree of guilt, respectable or outcast, moral or criminal -- this book is lovingly and prayerfully dedicated by

The Author.