Saintly Workers Five Lenten Lectures Delivered in St Andrews Holborn March
Saintly Workers Five Lenten Lectures Delivered in St Andrews Holborn March
Farrar Frederic William
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" Such were the convictions which filled his solitude with re- alities, and gave him power to be a teacher of mankind. /3. And, as his life was happy in its solitude, 1 Westcott. 54 SAINTLY WORKERS. [SERM. 11. because he walked by faith and not by sight, so it was happy in its simple healthy conditions. In the manual labour, the useful tillage, the reduction of life to its simplest elements combined with a heart which was at perfect peace with God, there was an element of health which accounts ...for the gaiety and charm in the look and manner of the first of the hermits, and which made Antony's life as true a life to every purpose which he understood as any life which we gain from all our comfort, and luxury, and incessant activity and change. To him the busy vanities, and reckless competitions, and gnawing jealousies, and fretting cares of these great cities would have been transcendently more unnatural, would have had infinitely less charm, than the long nights passed in such insatiate prayer, that at the dawn he said, " O sun, why dost thou rise already, and turn me from contemplating the splendour of the True Light ; " 1 than the long days, when, looking across the blue waters of the Gulf of Akaba, 1 Montalembert, Monks of the West.
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