Excerpt from All for Jesus, or the Easy Ways of Divine Love In offering this little treatise to the public, two things alone seem to call for explanation. 1. I speak continually of the Confraternity of the Precious Blood. This is because the work was intended as a sort of spiritual manual for the members, not because it is not equally suited for all devout Catholics. 2. While I trust to the charity of my readers to interpret me in all doubtful or obscure passages, as meaning only what approved writers mean, I would especially guard myself against one misapprehension. It may be said, All these practices and devotions have to do with mere Affective Love, not Eff'ective; and it may therefore be supposed that I would have people stop at the one without going on to the other. Of course, the perfection of love is to be effective, and effective love consists only in self-abnegation. There is no high sanctity short of this. But it is not the subject I am treating of. I am not putting forward what is perfect, but what is easy. I am not trying to guide souls in high spiritu ality God forbid I should be so foolish or so vain! As a son of St. Philip I have especially to do with the world, and with people living in the world and trying to be good there, and to sanctify themselves in ordinary vocations. It is to. 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.