Excerpt from Mirror of the Soul: Or Spiritual Things Discerned It is possible, had the writer lived to supervise the publication of this book herself, it might have appeared in a somewhat different character; but she had only time to finish the manuscript in its present form, and commit it to the care of her husband, with instruction to publish or withhold as his judgment might dictate, when the messenger of death, of whose approach she had been for some time aware, made his appearance, and ter minated her life and labors together. A title somewhat different from that designated by the author, has been affixed to the book, but otherwise, the editor has not interfered with the arrangement of subjects, or the relative position of chapters. As to the contents of this book, it is a record of personal experience and doctrinal views, given. 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.