nes at Tonon, they changed her manner of diet, and gave
her what was suitable; in a short time she recovered.

CHAPTER 3

As soon as it was known in France that I was gone there was a general
outcry. Father de la Mothe wrote to me, that all persons of learning
and of piety united in censuring me. To alarm me still more, he
informed me that my mother-in-law, with whom I had entrusted my younger
son and my children's substance, was fallen into a state of childhood.
This, however, was false.

I answered all these fearful letters as the Spirit dictated. My answers
were thought very just, and those violent exclamations were soon
changed into applauses. Father La Mothe appeared to change his censures
into esteem; but it did not last. Self interest threw him back again;
being disappointed in his hopes of a pension, which he expected I would
have settled on him. Sister Garnier, whatever was her reason, changed
and declared against me.

I both ate and slept little. The food which was given us was putrid and
full of worms, by reason of the great heat of the weather, also being
kept too long. What I should have formerly beheld with the greatest
abhorrence, now became my only nourishment. Yet everything was rendered
easy to me. In God I found, without increase, everything which I had
lost for Him. That spirit, which I once thought I had lost in a strange
stupidity, was restored to me with inconceivable advantages. I was
astonished at myself. I found there was nothing which I was not fit for
or in which I did not succeed. Those who observed said that I had a
prodigious capacity. I well knew that I had but meager capabilities,
but that in God my spirit had received a quality which it had never had
before. I thought I experienced something of the state which the
apostles were in, after they had received the Holy Ghost. I knew, I
comprehended, I understood, I was enabled to do everything necessary. I
had every sort of good thing and no want of anything. When Jesus
Christ, the eternal wisdom, is formed in the soul, after the death of
the first Adam, it finds in Him all good things communicated to it.

Sometime after my arrival at Gex, the Bishop of Geneva came to see us.
He was so clearly convinced, and so much affected, that he could not
forbear expressing it. He opened his heart to me on what God had
required of him. He confessed to me his own deviations and
infidelities. Every time when I spoke to him he entered into wha