SOME years ago, finding my ideas to be inadequate and, at least to that extent, erroneous with regard to certain details of the Religious Life, I resolved to read from beginning to end the great work of Suarez - De Statu Religionis I found it to be a mine of learning on the subject; and I had not spent many days in exploring it before the thought came to me that many persons might be glad to have some of its treasures placed within their reach in a more readily accessible and portable form. Hence the following Digest. I have aimed simply, to change the metaphor, at giving the marrow of the...