THE LIFE THAT COUNTS

THE

LIFE THAT COUNTS

BY

SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE

PRESIDENT OF WHEATON SEMINARY

NEW YORK

THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.

PUBLISHERS

COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.

PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER, 1905

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

THE BEQUEST OF

THEODORE JEWETT EASTMAN

1931

D. B. UPDIKE, THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS, BOSTON

TO THE DEAR MEMORY OF

MY MOTHER

WHOSE LIFE OF GENTLENESS

AND

SELF-SACRIFICING SERVICE

HAS LAID ON ME A DEBT OF GRATITUDE

THAT CAN NEVER BE REPAID

I DEDICATE

THIS LITTLE BOOK