Bernard of Olairvaux Bernard of Clairvaux
BERNARD OF OLAIRVAUX BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX THE TIJVlES, THE JVlAN, AND HIS WORK BY RICHARD S. STORRS, D.D., LL.D. Author of" The Divine Origin of Ci,~istianity," etc. ~.tl'ltb'.tl'tt HODDER AND STOUGHTON 27, PATERNOSTER ROW MDCCCXCII TO BROOKLYN, NEW YORK: Trained by God's grace, in its own happy work, till its freedom ha.s become the helper effaith, its devout11ess the teacher </f catholic sympathy, the beauty of holiness its commanding ideal, the victor.¥ </f Christ its supreme expectation, - long service in which has been rich i11 reward, - WRlTTRN IN ITS LIBRARY, AND SKETCHING A LIFE OF SINGULAR LUSTRE, ARE AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED. AUTHOR'S NOTE. THE following Lectures were prepared at the invita tion of the honored Professors in the Theological Semi nary at Princeton, New Jersey, to be delivered on what is there known as the L. P. Sume Foundation. They were subsequently delivered before the Lowell Institute in Boston ; and three of them, the third, fourth, and seventh, have since been read at the Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore. The course was at first designed to embrace only six Lectures ; and the writer has sometimes regretted that the primary plan had not been adhered to, - two, of the briefer course, being devoted perhaps to each of three of the greater Church Fathers, as to Chrysostom and · Augustine, representing, respectively, the Eastern and the Western Ch_urch of the earlier period, with Ber nard, representing the medireval period. Having begun, however, with Bernard, on account of more recent familiarity with his writings and his work, the lecturer soon discovered that the entire series would be needed to set forth the great Abbot in any tolerable complete ness ; and other possible subjects were accordingly viii AUTHOR'S NOTE, postponed, for a leisure which is now quite certain not to come.
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