Excerpt from Companions of the Sorrowful Way Way at Gethsemane, or three and thirty years earlier at the manger of Bethlehem. And it may not be unprofitable for the disciple to remind himself that the Lord was walking in the Sorrowful Way before the Incarnation, as He suf fered and sorrowed over backslid ing Israel unto bitter crying and lamentations, and that He is still to be found therein, as He shares from day to day the temptations and griefs of His Church. Many happy days of childhood He must have lived at home with His holy Mother in the mountain village of Nazareth, amid the woods, and flowers, and fields, and animals which He loved. Yet the pain of self-repression is already. 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.