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To a widow.<br />

Letter CCLXXXIII. 3242<br />

I hope to find a suitable day for the conference, after those which I intend to fix for the<br />

hill-country. I see no opportunity for our meeting (unless the Lord so order it beyond my<br />

expectation), other than at a public conference.<br />

You may imagine my position from your own experience. If in the care of a single<br />

household you are beset with such a crowd of anxieties, how many distractions, think you,<br />

each day brings to me?<br />

Your dream, I think, reveals more perfectly the necessity of making provision for spiritual<br />

contemplation, <strong>and</strong> cultivating that mental vision by which God is wont to be seen.<br />

Enjoying as you do the consolation of the Holy Scriptures, you st<strong>and</strong> in need neither of my<br />

assistance nor of that of anybody else to help you to comprehend your duty. You have the<br />

all-sufficient counsel <strong>and</strong> guidance of the Holy Spirit to lead you to what is right.<br />

3242 Placed in the episcopate.<br />

To a widow.<br />

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