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some circumstance peculiar to each He draws him naturally, sweetly, and yet mightily. Some event, trivial it may be, but still deeply significant in the light God sheds on it, will open up God's will to him, even as the sight of Jesus preaching to the surging throngs upon the strand must have recalled to the fishermen God's promise to their father Abraham that his seed should be as the grains of sand upon the shore; must have made them reflect that the harvest indeed was plentiful but the laborers few. " Pray ye, therefore, the Lord of the harvest," says Holy Writ, " to send laborers into His harvest," for a call to the priesthood is exclusively God's doing. Mary chooses the better part herself and Christ ratifies her choice, but to His Apostles He says: " It is I who choose you and not you who choose Me." Neither Peter the fisherman, nor Peter the disowner can turn to Christ unless Christ's glance first rest on him. And blessed be God that in distributing His favors Christ is impartial and no respecter of persons. James and John, we know, were own cousins to the Lord, yet Andrew and Peter's call preceded theirs. That Christ began by choosing a pair of brothers recalls God's choice of Moses and Aaron to liberate His people and seems to indicate the bond of brotherhood each neophyte enters into with his brother-priests. Again, neither wealth, nor influence, nor great abilities count for aught with Christ in His choice of subjects for His priesthood. One there was of great possessions whom He commanded to go, give all to the poor and coming follow Him, but