The following account of the Lord’s dealings (for His they surely were) with the convict Daniel Mann covers a remarkably wide range of Christian truth. In these days of a restricted and shallow preaching of the gospel, it is wonderful to have such a clear and thoroughly scriptural teaching of the gospel of the grace of God.
There are three ways in which the gospel presents Christ. We know Him as crucified and risen, delivering the believer from the penalty and power of sin. We then learn that when He was exalted to God’s right hand, He sent down the Holy Spirit of God to form the Church and to dwell in its midst, as well as in each individual believer. Then, lastly, we are taught by Scripture to look for His return, at any time, to call His own to be forever with Himself in heaven.
It is the teaching of these truths to Daniel Mann, and the response of his heart and conscience to them, that combine to give this published account such a large and extensive circulation as it has had in time past.
Daniel Mann’s prayers that this publication might be used of God “for the opening of many, many eyes, and the joy of many, many hearts . . . that God may glorify Himself by it” ( page 54) have been abundantly answered.
May God continue to use it for the blessing of every reader and the glory of Christ.