This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... they never lack anything in time of need: their poverty is true riches. If they unconsciously go astray, they turn it to account in humiliation, they continually return to their true centre point by consenting to whatever is a laying aside of self. They throw themselves upon God by absolutely refusing to trust themselves. And so by degrees recollection, silence, a perpetual reliance on grace in every detail, an ever-growing hidden life through death unto self, become as a very second nature to them. And thus, "having nothing, and yet possessing all things," such souls find again all that they once fancied they had lost, and beyond that, the closest, truest union with God. CXIV. tSEo riie Noting iDttcliesfse ne Sgontemart.1 ffitt some Domestic tSTrouWes. Cambrai, Aug: 4, 1706. It seems to me that the chief thing for you is never to despair of God's Goodness, and only to mistrust yourself. The more we mistrust 1 Henriette de Beauvilliers, who married her cousin, and was living with her mother-in-law (likewise aunt), Mme. de Montemart This lady, as well as her sisters, had heen objects ot Fenelon's affection and interest from their childhood. The Education ties Filles was written at their parents' request. ourselves, and look to God only for the correction of our faults, the more it will be achieved, but it will not do to reckon upon God without working hard one's self. Grace only works effectually in us when we, on our side, work heartily too. You must watch, be strict with yourself, shun self-deceit, receive the most humiliating rebukes patiently, and only count yourself to be dealing faithfully with God when you are making daily practical sacrifices and self-denials. As you think that you have said things to the Duke tending to set him...