O Lord, help me! and O Lord, destroy everything in me that interferes with the prosperity, growth, and fruitfulness of this precious, Divine, and everlasting fruit! "I have been ill--I have been very ill indeed.

I have had a return of my indigestion in its most terrible form.

This spasmodic feeling of suffocation has so distressed me that at times it has seemed almost impossible for me to exist.

Still, I have fought my way through, and the doctors this afternoon have told me, as bluntly and plainly as an opinion could be given to a man, that I must struggle on and not give way, or the consequences will be very serious.
"Then, too, the eye has caused me much pain, but that has very much, if not entirely, passed off, and the oculist tells me that the eye will heal up.

But, alas! alas! I am absolutely blind.