FRONT COVER; HALF TITLE PAGE; TITLE PAGE; COPYRIGHT PAGE; PUBLISHER'S PREFACE; CONTENTS; PART ONE THE PRINCIPLES OF SELF-SURRENDER; CHAPTER 1. IT IS JUST TO GIVE ONESELF TO GOD; 1. God is the Principle of all things; 2. God is the End of all things; 3. God is the exemplary Cause of all things; 4. Conclusion of the First Chapter; CHAPTER 2. IT IS WISE TO GIVE ONESELF TO GOD; 1. God concerns Himself with the sanctification of the soul that is given up to Him; 2. God places His Wisdom and His power at the service of the soul that is surrendered to Him. 3. God's action in the soul is full of mysteries4. God works wonders in the soul that is surrendered to His action; 5. The Word of God alone contains the Model for the soul's sanctity; 6. Jesus alone knows the place which the soul occupies in His Mystical Body; 7. In souls surrendered to Him, the Holy Spirit diversifies His action as He wills; 8. Under the guidance of the Divine Spirit, all things work together for the advancement of the simple soul; CHAPTER 3. IT IS EASY TO GIVE ONESELF TO GOD; 1. The soul is wrong in exaggerating the difficulties of the spiritual life. 2. "Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof"3. The surrendered soul should avoid useless anxieties; 4. God Himself instructs the detached soul; 5. To give oneself to God, it suffices to love Him; 6. To love, it is enough to will to love; 7. To the gift of the soul, God responds by giving Himself; 8. The gift of oneself includes the practice of all the virtues; PART TWO THE PRACTICE OF ABANDONMENT; CHAPTER 1. THE PRACTICE OF ABANDONMENT IN GENERAL; 1. In what consists the act of self-surrender; 2. The soul should make the act of self-surrender as perfectly as she is able. 3. The exercise of self-surrender4. Difficulties which the soul encounters in the exercise of self-abandonment; 5. The habit of self-surrender; 6. The soul that has reached the perfect practice of self-surrender; 7. Self-surrender and occasional faults; 8. The great danger point in the life of self-surrender; CHAPTER 2. THE PRACTICE OF SELF-ABANDONMENT IN VARIOUS OCCUPATIONS; 1. The practice of self-surrender during prayer; 2. God Himself directs the simple soul in the ways of prayer; 3. The practice of self-surrender in spiritual exercises. 4. In her exercises, the surrendered soul is attached to nothing but the order appointed by God5. The self-abandoned soul in her relations with the world; 6. The holy liberty of a soul that is given to God; 7. The gift of oneself in the midst of business affairs; CHAPTER 3. THE PRACTICE OF SELF-ABANDONMENT IN CRISES; 1. The gift of oneself in interior trials; 2. The pure soul should be detached even from suffering; 3. The surrendered soul must expect persecution; 4. The conduct of the soul at the time of persecution; 5. Self-surrender in time of sicknes