Excerpt from Upon God's Holy Hills: I, the Guides St. Anthony of Egypt, St. Bruno of Cologne St. John of the Cross Provided always that the stammered syl lables of hermits, and the grave chant of monks, and the ecstatic, broken lyrics of Mount Carmel, help to construct for you a song to sing at your innermost Communions, the book will have been worth writing, and you won't grudge the having read it. Anyhow, here it is, a present I'd have liked to give you long ago, at that rather hectic crammer's, or at the shop, or in the tedious camps. But things don't happen, on the whole, until they ought. 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.