Letter CCLXXXIII.
3242
To a widow.
I hope
to find a suitable day
for the conference, after those which I intend to fix for the
hill-country. I see no opportunity for our meeting (unless the
Lord so order it beyond my expectation), other than at a public
conference.
You may imagine my position from your own
experience. If in the care of a single household you are beset
with such a crowd of anxieties, how many distractions, think you, each
day brings to me?
Your dream, I think, reveals more perfectly the
necessity of making provision for spiritual contemplation, and
cultivating that mental vision by which God is wont to be seen.
Enjoying as you do the consolation of the Holy Scriptures, you stand in
need neither of my assistance nor of that of anybody else to help you
to comprehend your duty. You have the all-sufficient counsel and
guidance of the Holy Spirit to lead you to what is
right.
3242
Placed in the
episcopate.