Alter Ego: A Tale

Alter Ego
A TALE
by Rev. W. W. Walker
Author of By Northern Lakes, Sabre Thrusts at Freethought, Plain Talks on Health and Morals, Part II, and Occident and Orient.
AUTHOR'S EDITION TORONTO WILLIAM BRIGGS 1907
Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand nine hundred and seven, by WILLIAM WESLEY WALKER, at the Department of Agriculture
To Lydia Kirby Walker
the granddaughter of a cultured Frenchman and the faithful partner of my joys and sorrows, this volume is affectionately dedicated.
The author is indebted to the great national newspapers of Canada and the United States, the Toronto Globe and Collier's Weekly , for some facts from the former and some figures from the latter in rounding up the historical part of the story as relating to the conflict in the Far East.
PREFACE
To men who teach and write the oft-recurring question comes, How can we so influence others in heart and intellect as to help them reach a loftier plane of thought and action? As every life has its Gethsemane of sorrow and tragedy, so every life has its morning star of hope and its mainspring of faith.
Our salvation, then, and the lifting up and saving of others is the exercise of that vital principle which has its incarnation in hope. The use of this still further causes the mountains of difficulty that loom portentous in our pathway and tower to the heavens to crumble into mole-hills.