Excerpt from The More Abundant Life: Lenten Readings; Selected Chiefly From Unpublished Manuscripts of the Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks, D.D. Late Bishop of the Diocese of Massachusetts The observance of Lent as a season of spiritual awakening and refreshment, is steadily growing in favor with the Christian world. This crowded and complex modern life really demands a yearly period of comparative quietude, wherein the life of the soul - too often thrust aside and starved in.the ordinary rush of business or pleasure - may come to the front, to be fostered and fed, and strengthened for what ever of trial or sorrow it must encounter as its days go on. Bishop Phillips Brooks, by largeness of sym pathy and fineness of insight, is well fitted to guide us into this quiet, penitential season. No oneis less open than he to the charge of formalism, yet no one has made a more earn'est plea for the due observance of Lent than that which is chosen for the Ash Wednesday Reading in this book. It is no narrow asceticisrn to which he invites us, but a more abun dant life, not of the flesh but of the spirit, to be lived in loving dependence upon the Saviour, in loving commemoration of the suffering and death. 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.