to the one a deadly fragrance that makes for death, to the other a vital fragrance that makes for life. And who is qualified for this career?

I do sigh within this tent of mine with heavy anxiety ??not that I want to be stripped, no, but to be under the cover of the other, to have my mortal element absorbed by life.

I am not issuing any orders, only using the zeal of others to prove how sterling your own love is.

This does not mean that other people are to be relieved and you to suffer:

God is able to bless you with ample means, so that you may always have quite enough for any emergency of your own and ample besides for any kind act to others;

I do not boast beyond my limits in a sphere where other men have done the work; my hope rather is that the growth of your faith will allow me to enlarge the range of my appointed sphere

I made a levy on other churches, I took pay from them so as to minister to you;

I repeat, no one is to think me a fool; but even so, pray bear with me, fool as I am, that I may have my little boast as well as others!

(If I did care to boast of other things, I would be no 'fool,' for I would have a true tale to tell; however, I abstain from that ??I want no one to take me for more than he can see in me or make out from me.)

And for your souls I will gladly spend my all and be spent myself. Am I to be loved the less because I love you more than others?