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“The fair-form’d, flesh-hued Anemone, 
With its fair sisters, culled by country people 
Fair maids o’ the spring.” 
—James R. Barker. 
Sickness. 
Trust not too much your now resistless charms; 
Those, age or sickness, soon or late, disarms. 
— Pope. 
iY dear Friend:—When you become ill, remember this advice: not 
a hair of your head can fall without the 'permission of God. (See 
Matt, x., 30.) If then you fall sick, it is through the divine, permission. 
How, to wish what God wishes, and in the way that God wishes it, 
is a great virtue. 
In this afflicted state, therefore, never give way to impatience ; he 
completely resigned ; and often repeat the prayer of Jesus in the Garden 
of Olives: “My Father, if it he possible, let this chalice pass from Me; 
nevertheless, not as I will, hut as Thou wilt.” (Matt, xxvi., 39.) 
To will what God does will, that is the only science that gives us 
any rest. 
A well-known fruit-tree of the genus Pyrus. 
“The blossoms and leaves in plenty 
From the apple tree fall each day; 
The merry breezes approach them, 
And with them merrily play.” 
— Heine. 
