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Excerpt from Eleven Addresses During a Retreat: Of the Companions of the Love of Jesusengaged in Perpetual The object of this society has been and is as wide as the world. For it is as wide as the love of Jesus; and Jesus shed His Blood for all in every generation, for those who should know Him and those who Should in the flesh never come to know Him; for those with whom, amid whatever ignorance of Himself, His Spirit pleads, among the Heathen or Jews or Mohammedans or Heretics, that they, obeying this inward grace from Him Whom they know not, may live. And yet, it has also its nearer objects; those who are dear to us individually, but are lapsed into sin; those around us, near our homes; those in this great wilderness of souls, in which we are now gathered; those three millions, among whom, in so many faces, the world, vanity, sin, levity, sensuality, leave such distressing traces, and scarce any gladden one, except the yet innocent gaiety of children. How can we endure to be ever so short a time in the midst of them, and not be, as the Psalmist was, all prayer for them? How many of them may die to night! How many may be dying at this moment, and Satan may be disputing their souls with God! Let us at least now say, Miserere, Domine, and repeat to-night our Miserere, Domine, Lord have mercy, Lord J esu, mercy. How many sins will there be to-night I Once more, Lord J esu, mercy, save this dishonour to Thy Name, this waste of souls. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.