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iinruliness of the senses. I strike myself as I
would strike another person who should wish to
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offend God. I say to myself these words : It is the
demon that ; speaks dost thou wish to hear him ? Art
thou still on his side ? Art thou not ? Baptized Hast
thou not uttered these words, " I hate and renounce
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the wicked Manitou ? The demon takes flight
when I speak so boldly, and I am left in peace."
Some one let fall upon a woman, who was near
the fire, a glowing firebrand, which burned her
severely and hurt her greatly. At the same time
that her body felt the pain, her heart was seized with
an impulse of wrath ; now as it is not very far from
the heart to the mouth, this impulse went as far as
the tip of her tongue, to [21] break forth with
violence; but this thought (is
it not a Christian
thought?) throwing itself in the way, stopped it
short and made her anger subside without her ever
having uttered a single word. Such are the acts of
violence that take Heaven by force.
While some Christian women were talking together
about the hospital and the Ursuline Nuns who dwell
at this end of the world, one of their number said to
the others, referring to their ailments and their
labors, of which
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they were speaking: What matters
it to those Virgin girls whether they are sick or in
health? Life and death are all one to them: if they
are ill, they suffer patiently, and render themselves
acceptable to God; if they are in health, they help
our sick ones, and teach our children ; and if they
die, they go straight to Heaven, whither they know
the way. With us it is different : we have not yet
good eyes, we are unacquainted with all that ought
to be done, and we do not know, as they do, what we