I owe my knowledge of this book and of Towianski to my friend Professor W. Lutoslawski, author of Plato’s Logic. ↩
J. Patterson’s Life of Richard Weaver, pp. 66–68, abridged. ↩
As where the future Buddha, incarnated as a hare, jumps into the fire to cook himself for a meal for a beggar—having previously shaken himself three times, so that none of the insects in his fur should perish with him. ↩
J. Lagneau: Bulletin de l’Union pour l’Action Morale, September, 1894. ↩
B. Pascal: Prières pour les Maladies, §§ XIII, XIV, abridged. ↩
From Thomas C. Upham’s Life and Religious Opinions and Experiences of Madame de la Mothe Guyon, New York, 1877, II 48, I 141, 413, abridged. ↩
F. Bullen: With Christ at Sea, London, 1901, p. 130. ↩
Claparède et Goty: Deux Héroines de la Foi, Paris, 1880, p. 112. ↩
Compare these three different statements of it: A. P. Call: As a Matter of Course, Boston, 1894; H. W. Dresser: Living by the Spirit, New York and London, 1900; H. W. Smith: The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life, published by the Willard Tract Repository, and now in thousands of hands. ↩
T. C. Upham: Life of Madame Catharine Adorna, 3rd edition, New York, 1864, pp. 158, 172–174. ↩
The History of Thomas Elwood, Written by Himself, London, 1885, pp. 32–34. ↩
Memoirs of W. E. Channing, Boston, 1840, I 196. ↩
L. Tyerman: The Life and Times of the Rev. John Wesley, I 274. ↩
A. Mounin: Le Curé d’Ars, Vie de M. J. B. M. Vianney, 1864, p. 545, abridged. ↩
B. Wendell: Cotton Mather, New York, no date, p. 198. ↩
That of the earlier Jesuit, Rodriguez, which has been translated into all languages, is one of the best known. A convenient modern manual, very well put together, is L’Ascétique Chrétienne, by M. J. Ribet, Paris, Poussielgue, nouvelle édition, 1898. ↩
Saint Jean de la Croix, Vie et Oeuvres, Paris, 1893, II 94, 99, abridged. ↩
“Insects,” i.e. lice, were an unfailing token of medieval sainthood.
We read of Francis of Assisi’s sheepskin that “often a companion of the saint would take it to the fire to clean and dispediculate it, doing so, as he said, because the seraphic father himself was no enemy of pedocchi, but on the contrary kept them on him (le portava adosso), and held it for an honor and a glory to wear these celestial pearls in his habit.”
Quoted by P. Sabatier: Speculum Perfectionis, etc., Paris, 1898, p. 231, note
The Life of the Blessed Henry Suso, by Himself, translated by T. F. Knox, London, 1865, pp. 56–80, abridged. ↩
Bougaud: Hist. de la bienheureuse Marguerite Marie, Paris, 1894, pp. 265, 171. Compare, also, pp. 386, 387. ↩
Lejeune: Introduction à la Vie Mystique, 1899, p. 277. The holocaust simile goes back at least as far as Ignatius Loyola. ↩
Alfonso Rodriguez, S. J.: Pratique de la Perfection Chrétienne, Part III, Treatise V, ch. X. ↩
Ignatius Loyola: Letters LI and CXX of the collection translated into French by Bouix, Paris, 1870. ↩
Bartoli-Michel: Vie de Saint Ignace de Loyola, II 13. ↩
Rodriguez: Pratique de la Perfection Chrétienne, Part III, Treatise V, ch. VI. ↩
Sainte-Beuve: Histoire de Port Royal, I 346. ↩
Rodriguez: Pratique de la Perfection Chrétienne, Part III, Treatise III, chaps. VI, VII. ↩
R. Philip: The Life and Times of George Whitefield, London, 1842, p. 366. ↩
Edward Carpenter: Towards Democracy, p. 362, abridged. ↩
Saint Francis of Assisi: Speculum Perfectionis, ed. P. Sabatier, Paris, 1898, pp. 10, 13. ↩
An Apology for M. Antonia Bourignon, London, 1699, pp. 269, 270, abridged.
Another example from Starbuck’s MS. collection:—
“At a meeting held at six the next morning, I heard a man relate his experience. He said: The Lord asked him if he would confess Christ among the quarrymen with whom he worked, and he said he would. Then he asked him if he would give up to be used of the Lord the four hundred dollars he had laid up, and he said he would, and thus the Lord saved him. The thought came to me at once that I had never made a real consecration either of myself or of my property to the Lord, but had always tried to serve the Lord in my way. Now the Lord asked me if I would serve him in his way, and go out alone and penniless if he so ordered. The question was pressed home, and I must decide: To forsake all and
