ount, she has endeavored, with divine assistance, to
portray to others, Madam Guyon's deep religious feelings. May the same
spirit of devotion to her Lord and Master which she possessed, rest
upon the heart of the reader.

Happy are they in whose hearts burns the flame of divine love.

P. L. UPHAM.

Brunswick, Me., April, 1858.

SKETCH OF HER LIFE.

Jeannie Marie Mothe, the maiden name of Madam Guyon, was born at
Montargis, in France, April 13, 1648. She was married to M. J. Guyon,
in 1664, and became the mother of four children. In July, 1676, she
was separated from her husband by death. Madam Guyon was one of that
number, who, in advance of the common standard of piety, are called to
be _Reformers_; and on this account, she suffered great persecutions.
She was several times imprisoned. At one time eight months; and
subsequently four years in one of the towers of the celebrated Bastile.
After her release from prison, she was banished for the remainder of
her days to Blois, on the river Loire. At the time of her release from
the Bastile, she was fifty-four years of age. Her sufferings from the
cold, damp walls of the prison, in winter, and the confined air in
summer, with other privations and hardships, greatly impaired her
constitution, and rendered her a sufferer to the close of her days.
She died June 9, 1717, aged sixty-nine years.

During her imprisonment, she wrote her Autobiography, which has been
translated into English. Another work of hers, "The Torrents," has
recently been translated, very happily, by Mr. Ford. Also two essays,
"Method of Prayer," and "Concise View of the Way of God," by J. W.
Metcalf. It is not known by the writer, that her other works have been
translated, with the exception of some of her poems by William Cowper;
and "The Life and Experience of Madam Guyon," in two volumes, written
by my husband.

P. L. U.

CONTENTS.

1. REIGN OF CHRIST IN THE HEART
2. TURN AWAY FROM SELF TO CHRIST
3. STATE OF ASSURANCE
4. HUMILITY THE EFFECT OF LOVE
5. DIVINE COMMUNICATIONS
6. JOY IN PERSECUTIONS
7. LIBERTY IN CHRIST
8. MELANCHOLY AVOIDED
9. GOD'S CARE OF THE SOUL
10. POWER OF THE ADVERSARY
11. UNCTION OF GRACE
12. SPIRITUAL ONENESS
13. VICISSITUDES IN EXPERIENCE
14. PATIENCE WITH THE FAULTS OF OTHERS
15. HOW TO DISTINGUISH THE MOVEMENTS OF GOD
16. STATE OF SIMPLICITY
17. QUENCHING THE SPIRIT
18. S