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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. On Her Meditations On The Cross or Christ, And On Her Calmness And Patience In Suffering. I. As Margaret was meditating on Jesus suffering on the cross for us, the divine Conqueror invited her to battle, saying: --" Prepare to combat and to encounter all sorts of difficulties as long as you live. Gold is purified in a furnace; so will I purify you by trials temptations, infirmities, sorrows, fears, fasts, tears, hunger, thirst, cold, and nakedness; and when you are purified, you shall pass into the glory of eternal bliss. Let not the fear of all this discourage you; but bear yourself with manly courage, and endure all with fortitude, for I shall be with you in tribulation. And that you may not faint on this rugged road, I will frequently strengthen you by the sweetness of My presence." Margaret answered in transports of divine love: --" O Lord Jesus Christ, who didst endure such torments for my sake, I offer myself gladly, through love of Thee, to endure all sorts of suffering; animated with the most lively desire of pleasing Thee, I am ready to die, O my Beloved, for Thee." In this elevation of spirit she saw many things that she would not relate; however towards the end she turned to me, her confessor, and said: --" Father, will you return satisfied to the convent and to your Friars?" I answered in the affirmative. "Know," she continued, "what I have been assured by Jesus Christ, and what you ought not doubt, that the Holy Ghost dwells more especially in the Friars of your order than in any others under the heavens." II. Divine consolations refresh the soul in proportion as it suffers with the sorrows of Jesus; they abounded in that of Margaret. Through love of Him who strengthened her, the servant of God was ready to endure...