OUR title, though savouring of quaintness, is yet in keeping with the object of
this volume. As we press onward in the journey of life, to each of us the path
is new and strange. Often it is rough and thorny; often it winds through places
beset with difficulties and danger; often the sky is so dark that we can
scarcely see the narrow line upon which our advancing footsteps may rest in
safety. As "Finger-Posts on the Way of Life," pointing the wary traveller in the
right direction, has this little book been written. It does not, professedly,
take the high mission of the preacher; yet, while its end is to guide in natural
life, the author is never unmindful of the fact that all natural life is for the
sake of spiritual life, and that no one can live well in the true sense, who
does not live for Heaven. He trusts, therefore, that while these "finger-posts"
indicate the path in which to walk safely through the world, they will point, as
well, to the narrow way that leadeth to Life Eternal.