‘Have you let opportunities slip of helping others? Now see if there is some one to whom you might give a cup of cold water. Thank God for such an opportunity, and ask Him to refresh your own soul and He will, but you must be patient. Not at first does He answer. Partly this dryness is to teach you humility and sympathy. ‘I would recommend you to be sympathetic in spite of it. Make some definite rule for devotion and _keep_ to it. ‘Be particular about _time_, one may waste so much in mere talk; have some rule and respect it. ‘Take a little time at mid-day for prayer. Then if you don’t feel right, just go on quietly and untroubled, trying to _do_ as well as you can. ‘Read some daily portion on your knees and look up in faith. He “feedeth the young ravens that call upon Him.” To one who wrote that she found the character of the county in which her school was placed ‘detestable.’ ‘I am most sorry about your finding the —— character “detestable.” If you have seemed called to work there, you must be intended to love them, to see what is good in them first, then what needs correction. I dare say their good qualities are just complementary to yours, just what you want. ‘How does your Bishop feel about the flock over which the Great Shepherd has made him overseer? and how does the Great Shepherd Himself feel towards our detestable characters? Many letters to young teachers dealt with the care of health, which was always impressed as a sacred duty upon girls and teachers alike. Body and mind should be kept fit for duty. Hence social engagements which would make it imperative to sit up late at night should be cut off as far as possible. Holidays should be spent in such a way as to gain complete freshness and rest and where there was no risk of infection, not even of taking cold. Here is one to Miss Arnold:— ‘I am so vexed to hear about this chronic headache. Remember it is one of your duties to God, Who has given you work, to keep yourself fit, so you must use every means. I dare say a tonic _would_ do you good. ‘Take warning too by —— and do not put too great a spiritual strain upon your soul; the body is to have rest and not too great excitement. There have been times of weakness when I have not dared to let myself feel,—not at church or I should have broken down. You are not as weak as that, I hope. I believe you ought to do less in the holidays.’ Again, a month later she wrote:— ‘But I often think that you drive your _poor_ body too hard; if we do that, we have to carry “the ass” instead of the ass carrying us, and then we break down under the burden.’ Here is a letter to another head-mistress:—