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in this lies perfe6l blifs. And yet hearken 

 unto the end, Brother Leo. Beyond al] the 

 graces and gifts of the Holy Ghoft, which 

 Chrift has granted unto His faithful friends, 

 is vi6lory over felf, and power for love of 

 Chrifb to fuffer pain and infult, poverty 

 and difgrace ; forafmuch as in all the other 

 gifts of God we can take no pride, they 

 being not our own but of God. Hence 

 the Apoftle faith, ' What have ye which is 

 not of God ? And if it be of Him, where- 

 fore do ye glory in it, as if ye had it of your 

 own felves ? ' But in the crofs of forrow 

 and grief we may glory, inafmuch as the 

 Apoftle faith, * God forbid that I ftiould 

 glory, fave in the crofs of Chrift.'" 



CHAPTER IX. 



How SaiJit Francis taught Brother Leo to 7nake 

 A?i/wer imto Him : and He could 7iever Speak 

 fave the Contrary of that which Saint Francis 

 Willed 



SAINT FRANCIS being once, in the 

 firft days of the Order, with Brother 

 Leo in a place where they had no books to fay 

 the divine offices, when the hour for Matins 



was 



