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spend the remainder of your life only in worshiping
GOD. He requires no great matters of us: a little remembrance of Him from time to time; a little adoration; sometimes to pray for His grace, sometimes to
offer Him your sufferings, and sometimes to return
Him thanks for the favors He has given you, and still
gives you, in the midst of your troubles, and to console yourself with Him the oftenest you can. Lift up
your heart to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and
when you are in company; the least little remembrance
will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry
very loud; He is nearer to us than we are aware of.
It is not necessary for being with GOD to be always
at church. We may make an oratory of our heart
wherein to retire from time to time to converse with
Him in meekness, humility, and love. Every one is
capable of such familiar conversation with GOD, some
more, some less. He knows what we can do. Let us
begin, then. Perhaps He expects but one generous
resolution on our part. Have courage. We have but
little time to live; you are near sixty-four, and I am
almost eighty. Let us live and die with GOD. Sufferings will be sweet and pleasant to us while we are with
Him; and the greatest pleasures will be, without Him,
a cruel punishment to us. May He be blessed for all.
Amen.
Accustom yourself, then, by degrees thus to worship
Him, to beg His grace, to offer Him your heart from
time to time in the midst of your business, even every
moment, if you can. Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion, but act with a general confidence in GOD, with
