Letter 29. To a Lady in Sickness

Sept 29, 160S.

I UNDERSTAND, my dear daughter, that your illness is more suffering than dangerous, and I know that such sickness is apt to make people disobedient to their doctors, so I wish to tell you that you must in no way refuse to take anything prescribed for you, whether rest, medicine, food, or recreation. You can accept all these in a spirit of obedience and resignation, which will be most acceptable to our Lord, for all these are crosses and mortifications, which you have neither chosen nor sought God has laid them on you with His Own Holy Hand: receive them, embrace them, love them; in truth they carry an atmosphere of grace with them. Farewell, my dear daughter. I feel tenderly for you, and would say more had I time, for I desire exceedingly that you may be faithful through all these vexatious little trials, and that in small and great things alike you may always say, Hail Jesus I Yours,

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