CHAPTER V.

ABANDONMENT TO GOD— ITS FRUIT AND ITS IRREVOCA-BILITY — IN WHAT IT CONSISTS — GOD EXHORTS US TO IT.

T T is here that true abandonment and consecration to God should commence, by our being deeply convinced that all which happens to us moment by moment is the will of God, and therefore all that is necessary to us.

This conviction will render us contented with everything, and will make us see the commonest events in God, and not in the creature.

I beg of you, whoever you may be, who are desirous of giving yourselves to God, not to take yourselves back when once you are given to Him, and to remember that a thing once given away is no longer at your disposal. Abandonment is the key to the inner life : he who is thoroughly aban-doned will soon be perfect.