. Thomas à Kempis and the Brothers of the common life . d entering a state of religion from whichthey could not return. Father John de Ummen, ever alover of holy poverty, replied, * I have always heard it saidby the saints that poverty is good, and the cause andincrease moreover of all that is good. ^ All things, however, as we shall hereafter find, did notrun smoothly with the Brethren : their design was muchopposed ; diflficulties were thrown in the way of their carry-ing on the undertaking, and it was not without the exhibitionof much animosity from worldly people that the Brethrenmade a hu
. Thomas à Kempis and the Brothers of the common life . d entering a state of religion from whichthey could not return. Father John de Ummen, ever alover of holy poverty, replied, * I have always heard it saidby the saints that poverty is good, and the cause andincrease moreover of all that is good. ^ All things, however, as we shall hereafter find, did notrun smoothly with the Brethren : their design was muchopposed ; diflficulties were thrown in the way of their carry-ing on the undertaking, and it was not without the exhibitionof much animosity from worldly people that the Brethrenmade a humble beginning of the monastery where aKempis lived so many days. They were content to makea start, though with some misgivings, which afterwards Chron, Mt. St. Agnes, cliap. v. THE MONASTERY OF ST. AGNES BEGUN. 449 appeared to be too well grounded, and the work went on,till it was sufficiently advanced to commence the conven-tual life in it on a small scale. But let us tell the storyas we gather it from the words of Thomas a Kempis inanother GYMNASIUM AT KEMPEN. END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. VOL. T. G G LONDON : PRINTED BY 8P0TTISW00DE AND CO., NEW-STEEET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET A LIST OF KEG AN PAUL, TRENCH, & GOSPUBLIGATIONS. ?,8i I Paternoster Square^ London, A LIST OF KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, & General Literature Parchment Library .. Pulpit Commentary International Scientific Series CONTENTS. page 2 Military Works •• 17 Poetry .. 19 Works of Fiction .. 26 Books for the Young IACE28 ■ 28 3334 A. K. H. B.—From a Quiet Place. A New Volume of 8vo. <^s. ALLEN {Rev. R.) —Abraham ; his Life, Times, and Travels, 3,800 years ago. With Map. Second Edition. Post 8vo. ds. ALLIES {T. W.) —Ver Crucem ad Lucem. The Result of aLife. 2 vols. Demy 8vo. 25^-. A Lifes Decision. Crown 8vo. js. {F. J. B.) —Tke, Witness of St. Matthew. An Inquiry into the Sequence of Inspired Thought pervading the First Gospel,and into
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