Serving the Lord, as I did, in all humility, amid the tears and trials which fell to my lot through the plots of the Jews.

If the system of religion which involved Death, embodied in a written Law and engraved on stones, began amid such glory, that the Israelites were unable to gaze at the face of Moses on account of its glory, though it was but a passing glory,

Amid honor and disrepute, amid slander and praise; regarded as deceivers, yet proved to be true;

Do not neglect the divine gift within you, which was given you, amid many a prediction, when the hands of the Officers of the Church were laid on your head.