Hymns of the Church

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John Wallace
Burns, Oates, 1874 - 256 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 245 - CONTENTS : The Double Marriage — The Cross and the Crown — The Novice — The Fatal Accident — The Priest's Death— The Gambler's Wife— The Apostate — The Besetting Sin. Beautifully bound in bevelled cloth, 3s. 6d. " Written in a chaste, simple, and touching style.
الصفحة 251 - Register. The Rivers of Damascus and Jordan : a Causerie. By a Tertiary of the Order of St. Dominic. 4^. ' Good solid reading.' — Month. ' Well done and in a truly charitable spirit.' — Catholic Opinion. ' It treats the subject in so novel and forcible a light that we are fascinated in spite of ourselves, and irresistibly led on to follow its arguments and rejoice at its conclusions.
الصفحة 248 - The book before us contains numberless traces of a thoughtful and tender devotion to the Saint. It shows a loving penetration into his spirit, and an appreciation of the secret motives of his action, which can only be the result of a deeply affectionate study of his life and character.
الصفحة 250 - We congratulate Mr. Thompson on the way in which he has accomplished his task, and we earnestly hope that an increased devotion to the Holy Angels may be the reward of his labour of love." — Tablet.
الصفحة 248 - Possesses a special value and interest apart from its extraordinay natural and supernatural beauty, from the fact that to her example and to the effect of her writings is attributed in great measure the wonderful revival of devotion to the Blessed Sacrament in France, and consequently throughout Western Christendom.
الصفحة 243 - Louise Lateau of Bois d'Haine: her Life, her Ecstasies, and her Stigmata : a Medical Study. By Dr. F. LEFEBVRE, Professor of General Pathology and Therapeutics in the Catholic University of Louvain, &c. Translated from the French. Edited by Rev. J. SPENCER NORTHCOTE, DD Full and complete edition. 3^. bd. 'The name of Dr. Lefebvre is sufficient guarantee of the importance of any work coming from his pen. The reader will find much valuable information.' — Tablet. ' The whole case thoroughly entered...
الصفحة 248 - A more complete instance of that life of purity and close union with God in the world of which we have just been speaking is to be found in the history of Marie Eustelle Harpain, the sempstress of Saint-Pallais. The writer of the present volume has had the advantage of very copious materials in the French works on which his own work is founded ; and Mr. Thompson has discharged his office as editor with his usual diligence and accuracy.
الصفحة 235 - The Joys of the Resurrection. ' We know few better books than this for spiritual reading. These lectures are prepared with great care, and are worthy to rank with the old volumes of sermons which are now standard works of the English tongue.
الصفحة 244 - We strongly recommend these stories. They are especially .suited to little girls.' — Tablet. ' The very thing for a gift-book for a child ; but at the same time so interesting and full of incident that it will not be contemned by children of a larger growth.
الصفحة 250 - Register. New Meditations for each Day in the Year, on the Life of our Lord Jesus Christ. By a Father of the Society of Jesus. With the imprimatur of his Grace the Archbishop of Westminster. New and improved edition. Two vols. Cloth, 9^. ; also in calf, 16^. ; morocco, ijs. 'We can heartily recommend this book for its style and substance ; it bears with it several strong recommendations. ... It is solid and practical.

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