“There are in the loud-stunning tide Of human care and crime, With whom the melodies abide Of the everlasting chime, Who carry music in their heart Through dusky lane and wrangling mart; Plying their daily task with busier feet, Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat.” _Keble._ Footnotes [1]This edition of the “Letters,” edited by H. L. Sidney Lear, is also published by the Longmans of London. There is an abridged edition, in paper, for fifteen cents, for sale by George W. McCalls, Philadelphia, who also publishes Fénelon’s “Christian Counsel,” “Spiritual Letters” of Madame Guyon, “Life of Dr. John Tauler,” and other similar books. The five most important Lives of Fénelon are by E. K. Sanders, Longmans, London, 1901; by Viscount St. Cyres, Methuen & Co., London, 1901; by H. L. Sidney Lear, Rivingtons, London, 1877; by Dr. T. C. Upham, Harpers, New York, 1846; and by Charles Butler, Esq., John Murray, London, 1819. [2]Quoted in _The American Presbyterian and Theological Review_ for October, 1863, page 674, and also in McClintock and Strong’s Cyclopedia, Vol. III, page 529. [3]The celebrated historian of the Reformation, J. H. Merle d’Aubigne, who died at Geneva in 1872, was descended from the same family. [4]The principal sources of information on this important subject of Mysticism, from which we have drawn and to which we would refer such readers as wish to investigate the question further, are the following: “Christian Mysticism,” by William Ralph Inge, being the Bampton Lectures for 1899; Vaughan’s “Hours With the Mystics;” articles in the Encyclopedia Britannica; Schaff-Herzog Cyclopedia; McClintock and Strong’s Cyclopedia; articles in the _Methodist Quarterly Review_ for January, 1860, January, 1869, and July, 1878; various Church Histories, and Histories of Doctrine, together with the Lives and Writings of the main Mystics mentioned in the present chapter and the chapter which follows.