Now what will a poor creature like that do if { HER DEEP TROUBLES GO } ON FOR A VERY LONG TIME?
IF SHE PRAYS . . . SHE is INCAPABLE of RECEIVING ANY COMFORT, NOR, even when HER PRAYER IS VOCAL, CAN SHE UNDERSTAND what SHE IS SAYING; WHILE MENTAL PRAYER at such a time IS CERTAINLY IMPOSSIBLE - HER FACULTIES ARE NOT CAPABLE OF IT.
SOLITUDE is still WORSE FOR HER, though it is also TORTURE FOR HER to be IN ANYONE'S COMPANY or to be SPOKEN TO; and so, DESPITE ALL HER EFFORTS TO CONCEAL the fact, SHE BECOMES OUTWARDLY UPSET and DESPONDENT, to a VERY NOTICEABLE EXTENT.
IS IT CREDIBLE THAT SHE WILL BE ABLE TO SAY WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH HER?
The thing is INEXPRESSIBLE, for this DISTRESS and OPPRESSION ARE SPIRITUAL TROUBLES and CANNOT BE GIVEN A NAME.
THE BEST MEDICINE - I do not say FOR REMOVING THE TROUBLE, for I know of none for that, BUT FOR ENABLING THE SOUL TO ENDURE it - is TO OCCUPY ONESELF WITH EXTERNAL AFFAIRS and WORKS of CHARITY and TO HOPE IN GOD'S MERCY, WHICH NEVER FAILS THOSE WHO HOPE in HIM.
