multiply even your thoughts, for this is the way to become absent or distracted. Fix your mind on some important truth which may have specially laid hold of your intellect and heart. Consider — weigh — enjoy — reflect — rejoice. You must not, if I may say so, swallow down every morsel directly; it is not well to be constantly passing from one thought or one truth to another. Lay hold of one thing: grasp it till you have assimilated it; fasten your heart rather than your intellect upon it; crush out from it, so to speak, all its sap, by dint of bringing the full pressure of your attention to bear upon it.
‘ God sees you in secret.’ Think how He sees you through and through, infinitely more clearly than you see yourself. Make a simple and lively act of faith in His presence. Place yourself wholly, O Christian soul, beneath His gaze. He is present within you, for He gives existence and movement to all things. But do not stop short at this presence itself, which is equally true of all creatures, animate and inanimate. Believe, with active faith, that God is present with you inwardly, as giving you all good thoughts and as holding in His hand the very source whence these flow; and not merely good thoughts, but good desires, good resolu-
