Madam Guyon: An Autobiography (Classic Reprint)

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Few paths have been more strewn with crosses that the one which was trod by Madam Guyon. It can be truly said of her, she "followed in His train." No cross was too heavy for her to bear gladly, and no tribulation so grievous but that she gloried in it.

She lived, labored, suffered and died in the Roman Catholic Church - a great light in the dense darkness that characterized the age of Louis XIV. She was naturally endowed with beauty, wit and ability, yet from early childhood she desired to become a saint, and had her father consented, would have spent her life in a cloister. An early, loveless marriage to a man many years her senior, and a heartless, selfish mother-in-law, caused her to seek the Lord and to renounce self; her desires were all turned to the silent path of suffering that Christ might be formed within her.

After becoming a widow she was greatly used of the Lord in leading others into the interior path, among them many of noble rank, and here suffered the severest persecution from ecclesiastical sources. She was imprisoned for ten years, on a false charge, and banished for an equal number of years. Her autobiography, which has passed through a number of editions, was written while she was in prison, by the authority of her spiritual director.

We make no apology for putting another edition before the public. The Christian world is just beginning to appreciate the depths in God this martyr spirit reached.

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