below, and it is difficult to imagine how it will be possible for me to become acclimatized to a country where joy reigns, unmingled with sorrow. Jesus must needs transform my soul completely, else I could not support eternal bliss.
HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. XII
Just now a few notes of distant music
fell upon my ear, and set me thinking
that very soon I shall hear melodies
beyond compare; yet this thought can
give me but a moment's gladness; one
only expectation makes my heart throb:
it is the love that I shall receive and the love that I shall be able to give!
I feel that my mission is now to begin, my mission to make others love the good God as I love Him . . . to give to souls my little way. I will spend my heaven in doing good upon earth. This is not impossible, since the Angels in the full enjoyment of the Beatific Vision keep watch over us. No, I shall never rest till the end of the world! But when
