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Light, Life, and Love - Selections from the German Mystics of the Middle Ages

William Ralph Inge

TO most English readers the "Imitation of Christ" is the representative of mediaeval German mysticism. In reality, however, this beautiful little treatise belongs to a period when that movement had ne..

Outspoken Essays

William Ralph Inge

All the Essays in this volume, except the first, have appeared in the Edinburgh Review, the Quarterly Review, or the Hibbert Journal. I have to thank the Publishers and Editors of those Reviews for th..

Starr King in California

William Day Simonds

This book is the result of the author's strong desire to know the truth relative to a critical period in the history of California, and a further strong desire to deal justly by the memory of a man re..

The Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science

T. S. Ackland

The History of the Creation with which the Bible commences, is not a mere incidental appendage to God's Revelation, but constitutes the foundation on which the whole of that Revelation is based. Setti..

The Cell of Self-Knowledge - seven early English mystical treatises

Henry Pepwell

The seven tracts or treatises before us were published in 1521 in a little quarto volume: "Imprynted at London in Poules chyrchyarde at the sygne of the Trynyte, by Henry Pepwell. In the yere of our l..

The Lost Word - A Christmas Legend of Long Ago

Henry van Dyke

The Lost Word: A Christmas Legend of Long Ago is a collection of Christmas stories written  by Henry van Dyke. The stories in this collection are:I  THE POVERTY OF HERMASII  A CH..

The Heart-Cry of Jesus

Byron J. Rees

The saying, "Necessity is the mother of Invention," finds nowhere a more vivid illustration of its truth than in the publishing enterprises of the modern Holiness movement. The onward movement of the ..

The Christian Year

John Keble

John Keble, two years older than his friend Dr. Arnold of Rugby, three years older than Thomas Carlyle, and nine years older than John Henry Newman, was born in 1792, at Fairford in Gloucestershire.&n..