Read the sacred Bible, you will find the prayers of those who asked moderately were never unanswered.

For example, little dapper Zaccheus, whose body and relics the monks of St.Garlick, near Orleans, boast of having, and nickname him St.Sylvanus; he only wished to see our blessed Saviour near Jerusalem.

It was but a small request, and no more than anybody then might pretend to.

But alas! he was but low-built; and one of so diminutive a size, among the crowd, could not so much as get a glimpse of him.

Well then he struts, stands on tiptoes, bustles, and bestirs his stumps, shoves and makes way, and with much ado clambers up a sycamore.