Amazon.com description: Product Description: St. Augustine is acknowledged on all hands to be one of the greatest and best men that adorn the history of the Christian Church. The piety of his tender years, the theoretical and practical aberrations of his youth and early manhood, his wanderings through the wilderness of heresy and scepticism, his constant burning thirst after God, the only true and living God, his painful mental and moral conflicts in the search of truth and peace, his striking and thorough conversion, his commanding position as a bishop and divine, his invaluable services to the Church of his age, the number, character, and influence of his writings upon the later fathers, the schoolmen and mystics of the Middle Ages, the Reformers of the sixteenth, and the Jansenists of the seventeenth century, and the veneration in which he is still held to this day both by the Roman Catholic and the Protestant Church:—all this clothes his life with a peculiar interest, not only to the professional theologian, but also to every intelligent Christian. A faithful, clear, and popular account of such a man is still a desideratum in our literature. The biography, which we here present to the public, is conscientiously derived from the original sources, especially Augustine's own "Confessions," one of the most edifying books ever written; but to make it accessible to the general reader, we have omitted the critical apparatus, and all those minute expositions of his philosophical and theological system, which are only interesting to the learned divine. May the Lord bless this humble sketch of one of His most devoted and useful servants, to the benefit of His people!