Excerpt from Waters That Go Softly: Or Thoughts for Time of Retreat I have made many private retreats myself, one at least every year since 1862, and have given public retreats not a few, all on the scheme of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, which, as is well known, are composed to occupy the Exercitant for a period of thirty days, and are divided accordingly into four 'weeks', answering to what are known as the Great Truths', and thereupon to the Joyful, Sorrowful, and Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary. On this plan I have arranged these Thoughts, accord ing to four Weeks. But the book makes no pretence to being a systematic commentary on the Spiritual Exercises. 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.