The Bibliotheca Sacra, Vol. 76

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Excerpt from The Bibliotheca Sacra, Vol. 76: A Religious and Sociological QuartelyAs chroniclers of contemporary events, providing much of the material for the past story of our race, monks were exceedingly prominent. Facilities for such work were probably better in a large abbey than in any other place. And, as we should expect, it was in such great houses as Westminster and St. Albans that the most interesting rec ords were written. Their guest houses would seldom be empty. In the rule of St. Benedict it is hospitably or dained: All guests who come shall be entertained as though they were Christ. And so in the actual course of their duties some of the monks would hear what was going on, wherever Christians went and came, from those who had themselves borne part. The chronicles of the monks are not written, as a rule, from any narrow point of view, a man like Matthew Paris wrote history with no small charm.It is perhaps in the capacity of statesman that the monk has least received his due. It was not logical that the world should be ruled by those who had left it in disgust, and who, in the judgment of their greatest lawgiver, ought never to stray beyond the pale of the house in which they112 Bibliotheca Sacra [j an.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.