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would call their attention to it, in the hope that they will derive from its use encouragement and consolation in the practices of the spiritual life.
And if our Lord should deign to bless this little book, and enable it to increase the piety of those who will adopt it, and smooth for them the path of Christian virtue or of religious perfection, we shall be more than repaid for our labor in its compilation.
Nazareth, Ky., May 30th, 1875.
