Let us begin to be devoted to Him in good earnest. Let us cast everything besides out of our hearts. He would possess them alone. Beg this favor of Him. If we do what we can on our parts, we shall soon see that change wrought in us which we aspire after. I cannot thank Him sufficiently for the relaxation He has vouchsafed you. I hope from His mercy the favor to see Him within a few days.[4] Let us pray for one another. I am, in our LORD, Yours, &c. NOTES: [1: Gal. i, 10; Eph. vi, 5, 6.] [2: The particulars which follow are collected from other accounts of Brother Lawrence.] [3: _I suppose he means_ that all distinct notions he could form of GOD, were unsatisfactory, because he perceived them to be unworthy of GOD; and therefore his mind was not to be satisfied but by the views of _faith_, which apprehend GOD as infinite and incomprehensible, as He is in Himself, and not as He can be conceived by human ideas.] [4: He took to his bed two days after, and died within the week.] End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Practice of the Presence of God the Best Rule of a Holy Life, by Herman Nicholas