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Bu 25, 1876.

THE HIDDEN LIFE

London

Drford

Cambridge

RIVINGTONS

Waterloo Place

High Street

Trinity Street

OF THE SOUL

From the French

BY THE AUTHOR OF “A DOMINICAN ARTIST," "LIFE
OF MADAME LOUISE DE FRANCE," ETC. ETC.

Henrietta Louisa (Farrer) Lear.

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Preface

HE author from whose writings the following

chapters on the interior life are taken, was himself deeply and practically versed in the subject on which he wrote. While leading many souls along its blessed ways, his own life, so far as the world is concerned, was altogether "hid with Christ in God." Profoundly learned, not only as a theologian, but also as a classical student, the earnest devoutness of his mind (which was at once deep and broad) taught him to humble the power of a large and cultivated intellect before the Faith of Christ with the simplicity of a little child. Jean Nicolas Grou's writings are characterised by an absence of exaggeration which gives peculiar weight to his teaching. Love of God is the mainspring by which he would rule the whole Christian life; his motto

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