This is a book that does not need an introduction. 

A glance at the title, The Golden Stairs, and one is immediately interested. 

A scanning of the chapter headings, The Crisis, The Chart, The Closet, The Church, The Call, and The Climb, and he is intrigued. 

It is written as a study book in the Christian Service Training series and it is well adapted for class work, but it is so well written, so vitally spiritual, so full of valuable material and so helpful to Christian living, that it should be widely read for personal profit.

The style of the author, Rev. John E. Riley, is scholarly. 

This reveals the fact that he has worked long and diligently to prepare the manuscript for this book. 

And more than that, it is very evident that he is a man of thorough formal training and diligent application to his task as a spiritual leader and pastor of youth. 

His work also speaks unmistakably of his deep spiritual insight. 

He writes as one who knows by personal experience. In every one of the six gripping chapters the reader feels that the author has climbed the "Golden Stairs" before him. 

By natural endowments, by supernatural experience, by careful training by the godly parents to whom the book is dedicated, by full preparation in an environment of Christian faith and devotion, and by the faithful practice of what he teaches, he has prepared himself to present this book to all who will read and study it.

It is my hope and confidence that The Golden Stairs will have a wide circulation and will prove to be a blessing to all who peruse its pages.