Excerpt from Or, Life Lived Under the Guidance of the Holy Spirit A true Pastor. But I am as certain that muchpastoral direction to-day is immoral and dangerous. No director can be the mind or will or conscience of another without bringing the directed under a tyranny which is as immoral as it is degrading. Nothing can set each Christian free from personal responsibility for his conduct. All moral decisions must be the act of the individual: they cannot be rightly made for him by any other, he he Priest or Layman. A true Spiritual direction is educative. It leads the directed to follow the guidance of the Living Lord by a free and personal conformity with His known Will it guides to true liberty. But not unfrequently direction, as used to-day, guides to a servile and unintelligent obedience to a fallible director (frequently one whose fallibility is very apparent), in which the surrender of mind and will and conscience is demanded and yielded. From such a tyranny may all God's children be set free, to find in the ever-present ministry of the Living Lord, by His in-dwelling Spirit, that true Direction which is at once wise and free. 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.