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The saintly Fenelon was her friend, but he could not shield her. Bossuet, the king of preachers, was her great adversary. 'Quietism' was the brand set upon her written works and the offense that was punished in her person. But her 'aggressive holiness' was obnoxious to the established Church. She began to teach as well as enjoy the new light so different from the glitter of the traditional worship. An induction to these intense subjective visions and raptures had been the remark of a pious old Franciscan father, 'Seek God in your heart, and you will find Him.' She was the incarnation of the spiritualized Book of Canticles. She became a mystic, and her book Spiritual Torrents indicates the impetuous ardors of her soul.

She was born at Montargis, France, in 1648, and died in her seventieth year, 1771, in the ancient city of Blois, on the Loire.ДЄ convent-educated girl of high family, a wife at the age of fifteen, and a widow at twenty-eight, her early piety, ridiculed in the dazzling but corrupt society of Louis XIV's time, blossomed through a long life in religious ministries and flowers of sacred poetry. de la Mothe - known always as Madame Guyon - the lady who wrote these words in exile, probably sang more 'songs in the night' than any hymn-writer outside of the Dark Ages. Indeed, if there had been no sorrow there would have been no song.

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It took the long living under trial to shape the supreme experience. It tells us in the most affecting way how affliction refines the spirit and 'the agonizing throes of thought bring forth glory.' Often a broken life has produced a single hymn. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes - Theron BrownOne inspiring chapter in the compensations of life is the record of immortal verses that were sorrow-born.