We must ask support from above.

Where else ought we to seek it--where else can we find it ?' Emily checked her tears, and followed her father to the parlour, where, the servants being assembled, St.Aubert read, in a low and solemn voice, the evening service, and added a prayer for the soul of the departed.

During this, his voice often faltered, his tears fell upon the book, and at length he paused.

But the sublime emotions of pure devotion gradually elevated his views above this world, and finally brought comfort to his heart.
When the service was ended, and the servants were withdrawn, he tenderly kissed Emily, and said, 'I have endeavoured to teach you, from your earliest youth, the duty of self-command; I have pointed out to you the great importance of it through life, not only as it preserves us in the various and dangerous temptations that call us from rectitude and virtue, but as it limits the indulgences which are termed virtuous, yet which, extended beyond a certain boundary, are vicious, for their consequence is evil.

All excess is vicious; even that sorrow, which is amiable in its origin, becomes a selfish and unjust passion, if indulged at the expence of our duties--by our duties I mean what we owe to ourselves, as well as to others.