. . . . I know that thou wilt deal with
me as I deserve. I place myself therefore in thy hand, knowing that
thou wilt keep me from all harm so long as I consent to live under
thy protecting care."
Let these few scattered leaves, which a chance, (as men say,
but which to us shall be holy,) brought under our eye nearly at the
same moment, stand as an example of innumerable similar expressions
which no mortal witness has reported, and be a sign of the times.
Might they be suggestion to many a heart of yet higher secret
experiences which are ineffable! But we must not tie up the rosary
on which we have strung these few white beads, without adding a pearl
of great price from that book of prayer, the "Confessions of Saint
Augustine."
"And being admonished to reflect upon myself, I entered into
the very inward parts of my soul, by thy conduct; and I was able to
do it, because now thou wert become my helper. I entered and
discerned with the eye of my soul, (such as it was,) even beyond my
soul and mind itself the Light unchangeable. Not this vulgar light
which all flesh may look upon, nor as it were a greater of the same
kind, as though the brightness of this should be manifold greater and
with its greatness take up all space.
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