Selected Excerpt- Letter to Mrs. Dwight

Transcribed from original, (pp. 76-77)

Letter which I wrote to Mrs. Dwight, Boston, on the occasion of her husband’s death- the famous Doctor of Anatomy in Harvard University:

Dear Madam,

I extend to you my profoundest condolences at the loss you have sustained by the death of your beloved husband. 

The weight of your sorrow should be greatly beseeched by the christian virtues he displayed and the manner he prepared to enter eternity. That he received daily the Holy Communion for two weeks before his death will be your joy and consolation in after years, and a sure pledge to you that he has exchanged mortality for immortality, a life of pain and sorrow for that of unending bliss.

God is generous, and has promised heaven to all who will serve Him faithfully here below.

As husband, as a citizen, as a practical Catholic,  Dr. Dwight has stood out very prominently for many years. 

I feel confident that St. Vincent de Paul, with whose praiseworthy interests he was associated for so long a time, shall have already secured for him a throne in heaven in recompense for the good he has done among the poor, the sick and the other claimants of charity in your great city of Boston.