THE CHRISTIAN LIFE IN THE MODERN WORLD THE SIXTH SEries of John Calvin McNair Lectures AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA IN 1913 EXPANDED AND REVISED •The THE MACMILLAN COMPANY MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED LONDON BOMBAY CALCUTTA THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. IN THE MODERN WORLD BY FRANCIS GREENWOOD PEABODY PLUMMER PROFESSOR OF CHRISTIAN MORALS (EMERITUS) IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1916 All rights reserved COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1914. Reprinted BV 4501 P35 1916 TO G. W. P.1 IN VIGILS PROSTRATE AND WITH FASTINGS FAINT, 66 THEE MOST BEHOLD THY COUNTENANCE ERE THEY DEPART?" NO MYSTIC VOICES FROM THE HEAVENS ABOVE 1 Saint Gertrude of Eisleben (1256-1302) passed her entire life from five years of age in a convent, where she was permitted to see many visions of the Saviour. When another suppliant asked where Christ might be found, the Saviour answered: "Either on the altar or in the heart of Gertrude." (Man möge ihn entweder im Tabernakel oder im Herzen Gertrud's suchen.) The "Revelations" of Saint Gertrude (Insinuationum divina pietatis exercitia) were published in many editions during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. |