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Show The Bitter and the Sweet. The world sees devout people pray often, suffer injuries, serve the sick give to the poor, watch, moderate their hunger, restrain their passions, deprive themselves of sensual pleasures and perform such other acts as are in themselves them-selves severe and rigorous, but the world does not see the inward cordial devotion which renders all these actions agreeably pleasant and easy. Consider the bees upon the thyme; they find there very bitter juice, yet in sucking it they turn it into honey.t Oh, worldlings' It is true devout souls find much bitterness bitter-ness in these exercises of mortification, but in performing them they convert them into sweetness and delight. St Francis de Sales. . |