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CONVERTED Wovhs of tlje Kn . Frederick William Faber, D, D. ALL FOR JESUS; or, The Easy Wajs of Divine Love. 12mo. Cloth, An aim to iiiftkc piety bright, happy and attractive to those that need IIUcll llflpH. BETMI.UHnM. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50. .\ -itlcrinK tho three and thirty years of the life of our Lord. Kii. -.icn-d Infancy, the Holy Childhood, the Hidden Life, the I'ul .. : ... .; . till- I'asiiii.n and the Kiseu Life, or Great Forty Days. BLE5SED 5ACRAA1ENT; or. The Works and Ways of God. A cuni|>:ini'>ii liiKik to All for Jesus. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50. TliiN trerttise is an attempt to pri|>ularize certain portions of the science of thoolojty in the 8ume way as hand-books have popularized astronomy, Rcol'ijry, and other physical sciences. THE CREATOR AND CREATURE ; or, The Wonders of Divine Love. l2mo. Cloth. $l..')0. Difficulties respecting the Sacred Humanity, the Blessed Sacrament, Our UlessL'd Lady. Purgatory, Indulgences, and the like will find their explanntirtn here. 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LIFE AND LETTERS. By Rev. John Edward Bowden. 12mo. Clnlh. $1.50. POEAIS. 12mo. Cloth, $1..V). The I'ueins are the inner thoujihts and expressions of a man of God. They «ro the music of a soul hi^rhly and delicatel3' strung, over whom every w.ivo of );racu sweefis in harmony and awakens love, and in whom lovv M'.-ks tiltiDg words for the yearning of the heart. HYMNS. I2mo. Cloth. ?!..'•.(). This rollection of Cntholic Hymns furnishes food for reflection in all the phaxvii of the spiritual life. They represent in their heavenward tendency the i>o«t's eminently Christian spirit, and his deep concern for the salva- tion of aouls. For Kiilr 1>y nil hoDkfrUrrn. Sritt, post-paiil, upon receipt of price. I'niiiliiijiirs of our bmikK tiiiiitrd /rcr. JOHN MURPHY & CO., BALTIMORE. HYMNS. BY FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER, D. D. Non vox sed votum, non chordula musica sed cor, Kon damans sed amans, cantat in aure Dei. Gloss, in Cap. cantantes. Cljirb g^mencaiT, from the giutbor's last ^hitton of I8GI. BALTIMORE: JOHN MURPHY & CO. F3 TO ^be lEarl of Hrimbel anb Surrey, THESE HYMNS ARE AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED, WITH THE BELIEF THAT TO HIM IT WILL BE THE TRUEST TOKEN OF GRATITUDE fOR SO MANY KINDNESSES, THUS TO CONNECT HIS HONORED NAME WITH OUR DEAR ST. PHILIP. 1819. Honry Granville, fourteenth Duke ot Norfolk, died the death of the Just, shortly before iiiidnigbt on the Feast of St. Catherine, Nov. 25, 1860. Reqiiiescat in pace. LOAN STACIC FATHER FABER S HYMNS. All Father Faber's works are struck in the same key. A unity of thought and feeling pervades everything this gifted soul penned. There is an undercurrent of pur- pose moving along in silence, but with irresistible force, collecting and harmonizing the vast wealth of thought and imagery that floats through his richly-endowed mind, till it asserts itself in a powerful effort to lift man up out of the plane of his fallen human nature i^ito the sphere of the supernatural, and to place him nearer his God by bringing heaven and earth together in a closer bond of union. Faber's merit and the chief excellence of his writings consist in this : that he deals with man in his relations with the Creator and with the channels of grace established by the Creator—not as though God and His sacraments and His redemption were outside of him, or existences far aw^ay from his own existence, but rather as an inseparable part and parcel of the vast sys- tem of relations in which his being is merged. He has made us feel that grace and redemption are as intimately blended with our spiritual life as is the air we breathe with our physical organism. He has brought home to us the truth that all men are bound up in their influence and their action for time and eternity. He has thus raised up the popular intelligence a degree nearer the theological manner of looking at things. He has placed the material and spiritual world under a new aspect. It is one in which the severer and more sombre views of life are mellowed by a cheerfulness and a con- tentment and a hope ihat diffiise themselves through one's soul and make one resolve upon taking a fresh start 1* V VI FATHER FABERS HYMNS. towards the froal of saintliness. He does not ioriove any of the realities of life. All its miseries enter into his calculations ; but he does not, like the older spiritual writers, make them the burden of his thoughts. He sees sin and its consequences ; he notes crime, and folly, and wickedness ; he looks ^vith unflinching eye down the depths of degradation into which fallen humanity plunges ; but he also watches souls struggling nobly and manfully upward and onward, surrounded by an infinite world of mercy ; he sees sunshine everywhere, and the music of nature and the music of love reverberate through his soul ; and in the beauties of earth, and the beauties of, moral action, and the beauties of truth, he catches glimpses of the Beauty ever ancient and ever new, and reflects It from his glowing page. And the glamour of his own poetic nature occasionally makes more sunshine than there really is. For Father Faber is a poet flrst and a theologian after. From the outset of his literary career, Faber's })()eti- cal talent was recognized. When he announced to Wordsworth his intention of taking a curacy in the " Anglican Church, the poet remarked : I do not say you are wrong ; but England loses a poet."* Be it so. England has lost a poet; the Anglican Church after- wards, in losing him, lost one of its most zealous minis- the same time. Catholics throughout the ters ; but, at English-speaking world, in gaining him, gained one of the sweetest singers of the Church's mysteries, her sac- raments, her saints, her ceremonies and her glories. A man of exquisite delicacy of feeling and generous im- pulse and continuous elevation of thought, the poet embodied in his book of Hymns the flowering of all the ^Life and Letters of Frederick William Faber. Bowden, p. 173. ! FATHER FABER'S HYMNS Vil sublime emotions and visions that passed over his heart and mind. These Hymns represent in their heaven- ward ai?piration and spiritualizing tendency, the poet's eminently Christian spirit and deep concern for his soul's sahation. So beautifully does he sing at times that it woi'ld seem as though in him heaven and earth came nigh, and he heard the waves of time as they pulsed on the shore of eternity. And he does it all with the purp,>se of making truth and virtue sink more deeply into the hearts of those who listen to his sweet words. He was not unmindful of the power of song. He had read and noted what a large factor it was in sowing Arianism broadcast. He had witnessed the effects of Weslev's Hymns upon the people of Wales and Cornwall. He therefore started the practice of the singing of hymns in the Oratory. Time has proved the wisdom of this step. Several of the hymns contained in the present volume are echoed Sunday after Sunday, and feast-day ailer feast-day, in churches throughout all parts of the world in which the English language is spoken. And very often the thousands into whose hearts they have sunk, are ignorant of the source from which they welled forth These Hymns are well calculated to give food for reflection on all the phases of the spiritual life. They open a new world of thought, and they assert truth in a manner so striking and so beautiful that they leave a lasting impression on the reader. For the soul rising above the material, and making a study of the spiritual life, and anxiously striving to ascend the rugged path of religious perfection these Hymns are invaluable. Their subjectiveness makes them all the more attractive. They are the expression of a pure heart and an enlight- ened mind. They are the inner thoughts of a man of God. ; Vlll FATHER FABERS HYMNS. They are the music of a soul highly and delicately strung, over Avhoin every wave of grace sweeps in harmony and awakens love, and in whom love seeks fitting words for the yearnings of the heart. "New passions are waking within me, New passions that have not a name Divine truths that I knew hut as phantoms Stand up clear and bright in the tlame." So sang the poet, in one of his most admired pieces, upon the effect of music on his soul.