The Power of a Surrendered Life. I ask a careful reading of this little book, the thoughts of which are expressed in the simplest language. Dear reader, if you are able to subscribe to the few conditions herein stated, I believe you may enter at once upon the enjoyment of your birthright privilege as a child of God, and lead a fully surrendered life.

J. Wilbur Chapman

About the Author: Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman

FOR more than a quarter of a century Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman was a potent presence and a formative force in the councils and activities of the evangelical church. He was conspicuous, not as one who sought preferment or place, but as one who, "for Christ's sake and the Gospel's," gave himself to the service of his fellowmen. He was great among us in that he was the servant of all. Though he was unique there was no singularity in his person or his ministry. He had no eccentricities of manner or of speech, nor did he need such aids. He was heard, and heard gladly, in all parts of the world because of an undertone of reality, a ring of certainty, a note of conviction: all of which were constant in his personality and directed his simple yet cogent and sinewy speech. Throughout his ministry Dr. Chapman maintained a high conception of his office. This he magnified and was himself thereby enlarged. A man among men, he was genial, jovial, ready of wit; yet ever and everywhere a minister of Jesus Christ. Although clericalism was to him an abomination he was always the clergyman. As an ambassador of Christ he was loyal to the commission and the message he received. He faithfully delivered his message, and his ministry was therefore effective and fruitful. The cardinal truths he believed and defended were the Divine Inspiration of the Scriptures, the Deity of Jesus Christ, the Personality of the Holy Spirit, the Primacy of the Atonement, and the Return of our Lord. Love for Christ was his ruling passion, the evangel of Christ was his message: in the life he lived, in the sermons he preached, in the books he wrote, in the songs he composed. He was a preacher to preachers. There are ministers in all lands who, but for his compelling touch, would not be preaching to-day, and innumerable others who, because of their contact with him, are preaching with greater power. He had a passion for souls, but he had also a passion for soul winners. Great were the evangelistic meetings that he conducted, but equally great were the conferences that he held for ministers. In these conferences ministers of Jesus Christ were born anew to a higher ideal, to a finer consecration, to a more spiritual ministry… JOHN F. CARSON.