2.  If, then, there is any consolation in Christ, any fellowship of the Spirit, any mercy and pity, fulfil my prayer.  Put a stop to my depression.  Let there be a beginning of brighter things for the future.  Be yourself a leader to others in the road to all that is best, and follow no one else in the way to what is wrong.  Never was any feature so characteristic of any one’s body as gentleness and peace are of your soul.  It were well becoming such a one as you are to draw all others to yourself, and to cause all who come near you to be permeated with the goodness of your nature, as with the fragrance of myrrh.  For though there be a certain amount of opposition now, nevertheless ere long there will be a recognition of the blessings of peace.  So long, however, as room is found for the calumnies that are bred of dissension, suspicion is sure to grow from worse to worse.  It is most certainly unbecoming for the rest to take no notice of me, but it is especially unbecoming in your excellency.  If I am wrong I shall be all the better for being rebuked.  This is impossible if we never meet.  But, if I am doing no wrong, for what am I disliked?  So much I offer in my own defence.