‘I do wish you would take a real rest and holiday. I feel sure it would be more economical in the end. You have led two lives, and for awhile I want you to lead none, go to sleep.... Those whom you have inspired will carry on your work, and then I hope you will come back with fresh energy to take up not all, but a part of the work you have done.’ Miss Beale could also enter into the feelings of exhaustion and depression which follow some special trial connected with work. But the sympathy she showed was ever bracing, as may be seen in the following extracts from letters:— ‘I feel anxious about you, but don’t know what can be done, and think that the school must suffer if you let these private troubles occupy your field of vision.’ * * * * * ‘I am grieved that you are feeling so exhausted. If your post is clearly at Truro, if you have no call to leave it, then you must brace yourself again, and the work _will_ be done all right, whether in joy or sorrow. If God has given it you, He will give the strength to do it. We are inclined to lie like the impotent man thinking “I can’t.” Directly we hear Christ’s voice—we can! but it may be this body which you starved and ill-treated and worked so hard—“the ass,” as St. Francis, I think, called it, has been overdriven.’ There were many teachers who heard from Miss Beale just at the moment when they seemed to need help. A few words of encouragement would come at such times as the beginning of new work. To one she wrote always for the opening day of the term. Two such letters follow:— ‘_January 18, 1897._ ‘I am thinking of you on this your opening day, and this text seemed given me for you. “Be strong, and He shall comfort (strengthen, _i.e._) thine heart, and put thou thy trust in the Lord.” ‘Try, my child, to live more this year for your children, and to enter, as you are doing, more into the thought that to save our lives we must lose them.’ * * * * * ‘_September 18, 1899._ ‘I have been thinking about you, and supposed you would begin to-morrow. ‘What a glorious Epistle for this week. May you be strengthened with might by the Spirit, and be filled with all the fulness of God. His power does work in it, above all that we ask or think. ‘The prayer in “Great Souls” speaks specially of those worn down by sickness. I am sorry you feel weak, but the heat has tried every one, and I think you will revive when your children gather round you.