spirituality, greatly admired by Wesley, who spoke of him in the highest terms, and published his life. Alphonsus de Sarasa (died in 1666) gave to the world “The Art of Always Rejoicing,” a beautiful book, filled with the deepest Christian philosophy. The Abbé Guilloré, also a contemporary of Fénelon and belonging to the same school of piety, left to the world as his monument a treatise on “Self-Renunciation,” or the “Art of Dying to Self and Living for the Love of Jesus.” And Nicholas Herman, better known as Brother Lawrence, admitted, in 1666, as a lay brother among the barefooted Carmelites at Paris, is still known in the realm of pure and undefiled religion by his letters on “The Practice of the Presence of God,” published at the instance of the Cardinal de Noailles. St. Vincent de Paul (died 1660), to mention but one more of these illustrious names, founder of the order of Sisters of Charity, was a philanthropist of the first rank. Neglected children, condemned criminals, prisoners of the cell and the galley, all classes of the poor and the unfortunate, received from him a sympathy as practical as it was warm and persevering. Consecrated activity he regarded as the essence of religion. The spirit of his life is well expressed in his own words: “The genuine mark of loving God is a good and perfect action. It is only our works which accompany us into the other life.” From all this it is seen that the age and land which produced Fénelon had many other sons and daughters of very similar excellence. CHAPTER III. PRECEPTOR TO THE PRINCE.