Excerpt from Thoughts on Personal Religion: Being a Treatise on the Christian Life in Its Two Chief Elements, Devotion and Practice What is thus said, is said not without a thorough knowledge and trial of the book. Soon after its first publication In England in 1861, I procured it for my own private use, and its frequent perusal during the past two years, has not been, I trust, without advantage. I have read it in place of a weekly lecture, to a consider able number of my parishioners, and, I believe, to their lasting benefit. I have added it as an ap proved book to our Parish Library. I have placed several copies of it, and to their great satisfaction, in the hands of intelligent and ear nest-minded friends. In one case, during a length ened Sickness, it proved a source of much comfort and instruction - its chapter on the Magnificence of Prayer, solacing almost the dying hour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.