Charles R. Baldwin was of a highly respectable family and well educated – a man of superior intellectual endowments, a highly gifted attorney, floating on a tide of great worldly prosperity, and standing high in the estimation of his fellow citizens. But immediately after his conversion to God, he brought all his worldly honors and laid them down at the feet of Jesus, and consecrated his powers of mind and heart to the service of his Divine Master.

This is his biography, and is sure to be a blessing to anyone who would read it.

The writer, Maxwell Pierson Gaddis (1811-1888) was a prolific author and Methodist itinerant preacher. His best known book is his autobiography "Footprints of an Itinerant," which has been reprinted dozens of times.