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Excerpt from Harriet Monsell: A Memoir If I may be permitted here to take a wider view of the subject, I would observe, that it is surprising that any who regard the Bible as their standard of god's purposes for His elect, and its sacred texts as the embodiment of Christian ideas, can suppose that social and domestic life, however true, however beautiful, exhibit the whole of the Religion which our lord came to establish on earth. There are passages which open out forms of life and devotion which cannot be thus satisfied. Our Blessed lord's words, after speaking of the virgin state, He that is able to receive it, let him receive it and again as to the devoted separated state, Verily I say unto you, there is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife. 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.