eart.

"To the Spirit within I address myself: So long as I struggled
against Thee I had pain, sorrow, anguish, doubt, weeping, and
distress of soul. Again and again have I submitted to Thee, though
ever reluctantly; yet was it always in the end for my good. Oh! how
full of love and goodness art Thou to suffer in us and for us, that
we may be benefited and made happy. It is from Thy own pure love for
us, for Thy happiness cannot be increased or diminished, that Thou
takest upon Thee all the suffering of the children.

"Lord, if I would or could give myself wholly up to Thee, nothing but
pure joy, complete happiness, and exquisite pleasure would fill all
my spirit, soul, and body. The Lord desires our whole happiness; it
is we who hinder Him from causing it by our struggles against His
love-working Spirit.

"Who is the Lord? Is He not our nearest friend? Is any closer to us
than He when we are good? Is any further from us when we are wicked?
His simple presence is blessedness. Our marriage with the Lord should
be so complete that nothing could attract our attention from Him.

"We shall speak best to men when we do not reflect on whom we are
talking to. Speak always as if in the presence of God, where you must
be if you would speak to benefit your neighbor.

"If we are pure before God the eyes of men will never make us ashamed.

"We must be blind to all things and have our single eye turned toward
God when we would act in any manner upon earth--when we would
heavenize it."

Here ends the contemporary record of his life in Concord. The next
letters are dated at Worcester; the next entry in the diary at New
York. There remain, however, some interesting allusions to it in the
articles in this magazine of 1887 concerning Dr. Brownson, and some
conversations, still more graphic, in the pages of the memoranda.

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CHAPTER XVI

AT THE DOOR OF THE CHURCH--CONTINUED

THE first Bishop of Boston, John Louis de Cheverus, who left that
diocese to become successively the Bishop of Montauban and the
Cardinal-Archbishop of Bordeaux, was, in the strictest sense, a
missionary during his American episcopate. Thoroughly French in
blood, in training, in manners, and in zeal, his penetrating
intelligence not less than his saintly life and his tireless charity
recommended him to men of all creeds and of none. His departure from
Boston was regarded by all its citizens as a public misfortune, and
by him