Excerpt from Retreat Addresses to Women The present volume contains a selection from the many Retreats given to Religious Communities, and their Associ ates by Mr. Davidson. It has been compiled from his own notes, which were for the most part full and distinct. The last Retreat (at Ditchingham, 1898) is the only exception to this. It was supplied from the shorthand notes of two of the Retreatants, and is believed to be very accurate. It may be noticed that the subjects of two sets of these addresses The Vine and the Branches, and the Prayer in St. John xvii. Are similar to two in the Companion Volume of' Addresses to Clergy. But it need hardly be said that the treatment in each case is quite different, and suited to the needs of those especially addressed. The Editor wishes to express her great obligation to the Rev. Herbert F. Hunt, Vicar of Cookham Dean, Berks, who has revised and corrected the proof-sheets both of this and of the Notes of Addresses to the Clergy. Without his assistance the publication of these volumes would have been well-nigh impossible. 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.

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Excerpt from A Retreat for Women in Business: In Fourteen Conferences My Dear Children in Christ: - You have come here to make a Retreat. You have left the troubles and anxieties of Martha in the world to spend the week with Mary at the feet of Jesus. And it has cost you something. Not one of you but has had to make some little sacrifice to be present here. You have made it for the one thing necessary - you have come for your soul's sake. In the name of Jesus I congratulate you; in the name of Jesus I welcome you. For remember, dear children, Jesus has had a great deal to do with it. He is more anxious to have you here than you have been to come. "You would not have sought Him," says St. Bernard, "unless He had first sought you, nor chosen Him unless He had first chosen you." His grace and love are ever beforehand with us. "In this is Charity, not as though we had loved, but because God hath first loved us" (I John iv, 10). 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.

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.

Excerpt from Conferences of a Retreat Upon request these Conferences were written out after having been delivered in various places, and particularly to Sisters of the Good Shep herd. They may offer little that is new in thought or expression, but as they will probably help to spread the kingdom of God in souls, I bespeak for them a humble welcome. 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.