useless,
they
are
compelled
to
die.
They
say
in
the
language
of
Scripture,
**The
thing
which
I
greatly
feared
is
come
upon
me"
(Job
iii.
25).
What!
they
say,
to
lose
God,
and
to
lose
Him
for
ever,
without
the
hope
of
ever
finding
Him
again
I
To
be
deprived
of
love
for
time
and
for
eternity
I
To
be
unable
to
love
Him
whom
I
know
to
be
so
worthy
of
my
affection
!
Oh
!
is
it
not
sufficient.
Divine
Lover,
to
cast
off
your
spouse,
to
turn
away
from
her,
without
com-pelling
her
to
lose
love,
and
lose
it,
as
it
seems,
for
ever
?
She
believes
she
has
lost
it,
and
yet
she
never
loved
more
strongly
or
more
purely.
She
has
indeed
lost
the
vigour,
the
sensible
strength
of
love;
but
she
has
not
lost
love
itself;
on
the
con-trary,
she
possesses
it
in
a
greater
degree
than
ever.
She
cannot
believe
this,
and
yet
it
is
easily
known
;
for
the
heart
cannot
exist
without
love.
If
it
does
not
love
God,
its
affection
is
concentrated
upon
some
other
object
:
but
here
the
bride
of
Christ
is
far
from
taking
pleasure
in
anything.
She
regards
the
revolt
of
her
passions
and
her
involuntary
faults
as
terrible
crimes,
which
draw
upon
her
the
hatred
