Excerpt from New Helps to a Holy Lent The Sundays, for example, at this time of Lent, must come with a peculiar sort of welcome fragrance to those who have been strict with themselves on the week-days. The day of holy joy and thankfulness stands out even higher than usual among so many days of penitential sorrow. Perhaps, too, the beautiful Spring weather, which always comes in more or less with some part or other of the forty days of Lent, may be not untruly re garded by considerate persons as a token of refresh ment: an angel touching them and bidding them be of good hope that their prayers and self-denials and alms do indeed go up for a memorial before God, and are graciously received for Jesus Christ's sake, and that their Lent will lead in due time to a happy Easter. 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.