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Having been myself rescued from the power of sin, through the love and mercy of Jesus Christ, I have long had an earnest desire to do something that might recommend Him to my friends of the University of California. Every well posted person in the State must know that the many students, year by year coming outfrom Berkeley, are destined to have a very considerable influence on the people of this coast. The educa tion of the University settles that. But whether that influence shall be on the side of righteousness, purity of life and moral progress, depends upon what is the foundation of our moral life.

I trust that all who have tried to post themselves on the current learning of the day, have found that no amount of learning will give us the mastery over the simplest bad habit, how much less purge the records of our past lives from guilt. Having tried by many devices to rid myself from evil and to live an honest and upright life, and having for years been baffled in every attempt, in sheer despair I turned to the much disused and neglected Bible, and by earnest prayer, found a Saviour who was able to save to the uttermost.

Now I know that in the University, with all its literary and scientific training the Bible is a disused book. I speak from personal experience. It is to supply this lack to some extent at least, that I desire to present you this little book of Bible Gems. They are not my words but God's. Accept them as such and you will surely find peace.

With this book go my most earnest prayers, and the prayers of many Christian people, that the Spirit may help you to believe and understand.

Yours in the love of Christ,

FRANKLIN RHODA,

Class of '73.

FRUIT VALE, Alameda County, California, July 18, 1882.

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