Toast of Mr. Courtet.

Gentlemen, A member of the Groupe Spirite des Brotteaux, I come, in its name, to propose a toast in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Dijoud.

Madam, I fulfill a very agreeable duty in serving as interpreter of our whole Society, which thanks you for all that you have done in our favor! How many consolations you have caused to spring up among us! How many tears of tenderness and of joy you have made us shed! Your heart, so good and so modest, did not grow proud with your successes, but rather increased your charity. We well know, madam, that you are only the interpreter of the superior Spirits who are bound to you, just as we also know with what devotion you discharge that task. Through your intermediary we were initiated into these lofty questions of morality and of philosophy, whose solution must bring about the reign of God and, consequently, the happiness of men on Earth. We also thank you, madam, for the assistance you give to our sick; your faith and your zeal are rewarded by the satisfaction you experience in doing good and relieving suffering. We do not ask you for the continuation of your good offices; be assured of all our gratitude and of our eternal recognition. Mr. Dijoud, we thank you for the intelligence, the firmness, and the complaisance that you bring to our meetings. We count on you to continue this great work, with the concurrence of the good Spirits.