CHAPTER XII. Of Sadness and Sorrow. S. PAUL says that “godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of, but the sorrow of…
CHAPTER IV. Two striking Illustrations of the same. THIS distinction, which is very important, is well illustrated by the description S. Jerome gives of a…
CHAPTER XXXIII. Of Balls, and other Lawful but Dangerous Amusements. DANCES and balls are things in themselves indifferent, but the circumstances ordinarily surrounding them have…
CHAPTER XVI. How to possess a rich Spirit amid real Poverty. BUT if you are really poor, my daughter, for God’s Sake be so in…
CHAPTER XIII. How to maintain Purity. BE exceedingly quick in turning aside from the slightest thing leading to impurity, for it is an evil which…
CHAPTER XIV. Of Holy Communion, and how to join in it. 1. SO far I have said nothing concerning the Sun of all spiritual exercises,…