Being Spiritual Maxims gathered thoughts conversations letters. Although death has carried off last year many of the Order of the Carmelites Deschausses, brethren who have left in dying rare legacies of lives of virtue, Providence, it would seem, has desired that the eyes of men should be cast chiefly on Brother Lawrence, and has made his death the occasion of showing forth the merit of this holyman, who all his life has studied to avoid the gaze of men and whose saintliness is only fully seen now that he is dead.