they
can
leave
without
pain;
they
would
leave
the
whole
world
to
enjoy
for
one
hour
their
present
experience.
They
find
that
prayer
has
become
their
continual
attitude
;
their
love
increases
day
by
day,
so
that
their
one
desire
is
always
to
love
and
never
to
be
interrupted.
And
as
they
are
not
now
strong
enough
to
be
undisturbed
by
conversation,
they
shun
and
fear
it
;
they
love
to
be
alone,
and
to
enjoy
the
caresses
of
their
Beloved.
They
have
within
them-selves
a
Counsellor,
who
lets
them
find
no
pleasure
in
earthly
things,
and
who
does
not
suffer
them
to
com-mit
a
single
fault,
without
making
them
feel
by
His
coldness
how
much
sin
is
displeasing
to
Him.
This
coldness
of
God,
in
times
of
transgression,
is
to
them
the
most
terrible
chastisement.
It
seems
as
though
God's
only
care
were
to
correct
and
reprove
them,
and
His
one
purpose
to
perfect
them.
It
is
a
surprise
to
themselves
and
to
others
that
they
change
more
in
a
month
by
this
way,
and
even
in
a
day,
than
in
several
years
by
the
other.
O
God
!
it
belongs
only
to
Thee
to
correct
and
to
purify
the
hearts
of
Thy
children
!
God
has
yet
another
means
of
chastising
the
soul,
when
it
is
further
advanced
in
the
divine
life,
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