Letter V. To Mother de Bre"chard, Acting as Superioress

AT ANNECY.

That she should moderate her activity and her solicitude, trusting in God.

MY VERY DEAR DAUGHTER — You must take rest, and sufficient rest; must lovingly leave some work to others, and not seek to have all the crowns: our dear neighbours will be glad enough to have some. The ardour of holy love, which urges you to want to do everything, ought also to keep you back and make you leave others something to do for their consolation. God will be good to us, my daughter; I hope he is threatening you without intending to strike, and that the dear person of our mother will complete hejr journey back to her very dear lieutenant, her well-beloved daughter. I want you to labour in. a spirit ardent yet gentle, fervent but moderate, expecting the good conclusion of sicknesses and of all affairs not from your labour, not from your care, but from the loving goodness of your Spouse. May he deign to bless you eternally, with all the flock of my dearest mother, absent, yet so present

LET. vn.] Earlier Letters to Visitation. 99 to us in heart, in the presence of him who is the supreme all of the heart of mother and of daughters: beseech him to be this also to the father, that all may be holily equal in our poor dear little Visitation. Amen.