St. Francis of Assisi e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. We miss much of what is most worth having in life if we do not set apart a portion of our time to the study of the lives of the best in all generations. There we get what we can hardly get from any other form of literature; we see men as they actually were in the face of the common human temptations, trials, sorrows, that exist from age to age; how they prayed and strug gled and suffered; how they dared to look forward and hope; and how, in spite of all, they, in a measure.