THE PRACTICE OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD THE BEST RULE OF A HOLY LIFE
BEING CONVERSATIONS AND LETTERS OF BROTHER LAWRENCE
"I believe in the ... communion of
saints."
SURELY if additional proof of its reality were needed,
it might be found in the universal oneness of experimental Christianity in all
ages and in all lands. The experiences of Thomas à Kempis, of Tauler and
of Madame Guyon, of John Woolman and Hester Ann Rogers, how marvelously they
agree, and how perfectly they harmonize! And Nicholas Herman, of Lorraine,
whose letters and conversations are here given, testifies to the same truth! In
communion with Rome, a lay brother among the Carmelites, for several years a
soldier, in an irreligious age, amid a skeptical people, yet in him the
practice of the presence of GOD was as much a reality as the "watch" of the
early Friends, and the "holy seed" in him and others was the "stock" (Isa. vi.
16) from which grew the household and evangelistic piety of the eighteenth
century, of Epworth and of Moorfields.
Contents
- Title Page
- Preface
- CONVERSATIONS
- First Conversation
- Second Conversation
- Third Conversation
- Fourth Conversation
- LETTERS
- First Letter
- Second Letter
- Third Letter
- Fourth Letter
- Fifth Letter
- Sixth Letter
- Seventh Letter
- Eighth Letter
- Ninth Letter
- Tenth Letter
- Eleventh Letter
- Twelfth Letter
- Thirteenth Letter
- Fourteenth Letter
- Fifteenth Letter
- Appendix A - The electronic edition
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