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The Source of "jerusalem the Golden"; Together With Other Pieces Attributed to Bernard of Cluny
The Source of jerusalem the Golden Together With Other Pieces Attributed to Bernard of Cluny Author:Bernard General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1910 Original Publisher: The University of Chicago Press Subjects: Hymns Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access t... more »o Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: A GOLDEN BOOKLET ON THE VANITY OF THE WORLD AND DESIRE FOR ETERNAL LIFE1 My pamphlet brings you salutary words, dear boy. You will see much there, if you do not scorn my gift. Sweet is the solace of the soul I send you, but it is of no use unless you put it in practice. Cast not to the winds these suggestions that I make; let them strike the ear of your heart, and so keep them in mind that my utterances may work you great good, and through the gift of God the kingdom of heaven be opened unto you. These words will please the true heart. They point out and exhort, but do not chide. The voice of God bids us not to put our hope in the things of this world, which lead to destruction. If any man love Christ, he will not love this world, but, spurning the love of it as a stench, will count disgusting what the world thinks pleasant. To him is cheap whatever seems brilliant in the world. He shuns earthly beauty as deadly poison and, casting from 1 Translated from the Latin text in Samuel W. Duffield's Latin Hymns (New York, 1889), pp. 485-92; reprinted there from Lubin's edition of Bernard's De con- temptu in m1i//. This is the poem inserted by Mabillon among the works of Bernard, of Clairvaux (Migne, Pat. Lot., CLXXXIV, cols. 1307-14) under the title Carmen paraeneticum ad Rainaldum ("A hortatory poem addressed to Rainald"). Rainald was a boy, but I know nothing of him. I have paragraphed this translation to agree with Mabillon's paragraphing. Rev. Nathanacl Weiss, the learned and famous secretary of the Socie"te " de l'His- toire du Protc...« less