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This is an unasham-ed plug, commercial, advertisement, call-it-what-you-will.

Miss Eagle wants to extend the warmest of thank yous to Harry Plantinga, Director of the Christian Classics Ethereal Library, and his wonderful team. Miss Eagle also wants to single out the person who put together the George Herbert poems in a Lenten format. Not only has CCEL enriched Miss Eagle's life over the years (not to mention saving money, saving research time), CCEL has enriched greatly the Lenten component of this blog. The daily download of George Herbert's beautiful work with which we are familiar from beautiful hymn settings has been a joy and a delight.

Here are some facts and figures from Harry which should encourage you to frequently visit CCEL if you do not already do so.

Recently we analyzed old CCEL access logs. Some interesting statistics: since May 1994, when the CCEL became available on the web, we have had about 70 million visits, 271 million page views, and 1.3 billion hits. We have served about 5.1 million PDF files and 8.1 million mp3 files. We have transferred about 65,900 GB of data. (That is about 66 million books’ worth of data.) These statistics give some evidence that by God’s grace we are succeeding in pursing our mission, which is to make classic Christian books available and promote their use.
This newsletter is a part of our plan for promoting classic Christian books. Last month we highlighted The Practice of the Presence of God as a book that is very helpful in showing what it is like to live a life dedicated to Christ. Reading good books such as this one, along with prayer and actually "practicing the presence of God" can help to counteract the distractions of the world that divert us from the one thing needful. Thus, we worked out a special deal with Christianaudio.com to include an audio recording of The Practice of the Presence of God with every order at the CCEL store, while supplies last. For details, keep reading.