THE letter is inscribed, “A letter which he wrote to a faithful woman in her heaviness and trouble” and is as follows:—”How should God wipe away tears from your eyes in heaven, if now on earth you shed no tears? How would heaven be a place of rest, if you found it rest on earth? How could you desire to be at home if in your journey you found no grief? How could you so often call upon God and talk with Him, if your enemy slept all the day long? How should you elsewhere be made like Christ—I mean in joy—if you weep not with him in sorrow? If you will have joy and felicity, you must have sorrow and misery. If you go to Heaven you must sail by Hell. If you will embrace Christ in His robes, you must not scorn him in His rags. If you sit at Christ’s table in His kingdom, you must first abide with Him in His temptations. If you will partake of His glory, forsake not the cup of His ignominy.”