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Excerpt from Prayers of the Ages
Augustine, and other works not in print in this country, I have made large selections; and also from the memoirs and private diaries of such men and women as were great in goodness from Fenelon and Oberlin and Madame Guyon, from Arnold of Rugby and Wilberforce and Charming and Sir Thomas Browne and Jeremy Taylor and Wilson and Andrewes and Luther; from the countless saints and martyrs of the Romish Church; from saints of heathen times, like Socrates and Epictetus; from Mahomet, Saadi, and the Hindoo Vedas; from modern books of prayer in various denominations; and from those excellent manuals of devotion in which the Roman Church abounds, and which are fitted to every shade of character and every emergency of life, through that fine tact which the disciples of Loyola so wisely cultivate.
The prayers are given without alterations, except, in a very few instances, some necessary abridgment. A religious rather than a liter ary genius has been my test in making the selections. I have sought for records of the conversation in heaven, the heavenly places of the soul, which the saints enjoyed while on earth, the ladders of light whereby they have drawn earth closer to heaven.
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