RETREAT ADDRESSES ON THE LIFE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY AS TOLD IN THE GOSPELS With an appended Essay on the Virgin Birth BY THE RT. REV. A. C. A. HALL, D.D. Bishop of Vermont NEW YORK AND LONDON IX. THE MARRIAGE FEAST AT CANA . . 162 X. THE VIRGIN MOTHER AT THE CROSS . 186 357 PREFACE. I HAVE been repeatedly urged to publish these Meditations, which in substance have been several times given in Retreats for Women on both sides of the Atlantic. I had thought to write out the Addresses afresh from notes taken on different occasions, but this has proved impossible. The notes which were taken with considerable fulness, but by no means verbatim, at a Retreat for the Guild of the Epiphany (a society of Churchwomen engaged in educational work), in the Chapel of the Sisters of Bethany, London, in January, 1892, are here printed, after careful revision as regards |