BY

ALONZO T. JONES

No past event has any intrinsic importance. The knowledge of it is valuable only as
it leads us to form just calculations with respect to the future.—MACAULAY

To

THE COMMON PEOPLE,
who heard our common Master gladly,
and whose silent, practical experience “throughout the
history of the Church, has always been truer and has led the Church
in a safer path than have the public decrees of those who
claim to be authoritative leaders of theological
thought,” this book is respectfully
dedicated
by
THE AUTHOR.