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that young man's countenance fell and he sadly turned away. More frequently the call comes to the poor and humble and by such is it more generally and more readily accepted. The fishermen were rough and unlettered, as unpromising, seemingly, for any purposes of usefulness or beauty as the unhewn log of wood or the undressed block of marble, but out of the wood may be fashioned a thing of beauty, and within the marble may lie hid an angel. Julian, the apostate, was wont to sneeringly remark that Christ chose the ignorant as more gullible, and even among alumni of Catholic colleges you will sometimes hear the brighter men reproach the duller ones with having studied for the priesthood because no other path to success lay open to them. The charge is false and blasphemous. Not all of Christ's disciples were rude and uncultured. Nicodemus and Gamaliel and Nathanael were doctors of the law; Lazarus and Joseph of Arimathea were from the Judean nobility; Paul and Denis the Areopagite and the many Jewish priests, who, as we read in the Acts, embraced the faith, were all most learned men, and later history records that the greatest minds that ever graced this earth were priests of God. And does it not redound to God's greater glory that men so utterly unfit as were the fishermen should have suddenly become masters of wisdom and of eloquence, linguists versed in every known tongue, and stupendous wonder-workers? That God chose such feeble means wherewith to conquer Jewish bigotry and convert a Pagan world served the double purpose of illustrating His