CHAPTER XVI.^

The game of chess.
1. The game of chess. 2. Meditation and contemplation. 3. Difficulties of rising to contemplation. 4. The virtues usually required for it. 5. Suffer- ings home for us by Christ. 6. Why God sometimes raises imperfect souls to contemplation. 7. Abandonment to God’s care. 8. That all should aim at sanctity.