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Title: Santa Teresa
an Appreciation: with some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings

Author: Alexander Whyte

Release Date: September 5, 2006 [eBook #19185]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SANTA TERESA***

Transcribed from the 1900 Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier edition by David
Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

_THEODIDACTA_

_AFFICIENS_

_INFLAMMANS_

Santa Teresa: an Appreciation

_With some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings Selected Adapted
and Arranged by_
_Alexander Whyte_
_D.D._

_Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier_
_Saint Mary Street_, _Edinburgh_, _and_
21 _Paternoster Square_, _London_
1900

_Third Edition_
_Completing_ 6000 _copies_

Edinburgh: T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to her Majesty

APPRECIATION AND INTRODUCTION

With a view to the work of my classes this session, I took old Abraham
Woodhead's two black-letter quartos with me to the Engadine last July.
And I spent every rainy morning and every tired evening of that memorable
holiday month in the society of Santa Teresa and her excellent
old-English translator. Till, ever, as I crossed the Morteratch and the
Roseg, and climbed the hills around Maloggia and Pontresina, a voice
would come after me, saying to me, Why should you not share all this
spiritual profit and intellectual delight with your Sabbath evening
congregations, and with your young men's and young women's classes? Why
should you not introduce Santa Teresa to her daughters in Edinburgh? For
her daughters they are, so soon and as long as they live in
self-knowledge and in self-denial, in humility and in meekness, and
especially in unceasing prayer for themselves and for others. And I am
not without some assurance that in this present lecture I am both hearing
and obeying one of those same locutions that Teresa heard so frequently,
and obeyed with such instancy and fidelity and fruitfulness.

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Luther was born in 1483, and he nailed his ninety-five theses to the door
of the University Church of Wittenber