In its greatest representatives, the rhythm of adoration and work is seen in an accentuated form.

These people seldom or never answer to the popular idea of idle contemplatives.

They do not withdraw from the stream of natural life and effort, but plunge into it more deeply, seek its heart.

They have powers of expression and creation, and use them to the full.

St.Paul, St.Benedict, St.Bernard, St.Francis, St.Teresa, St.Ignatius organizing families which shall incarnate the gift of new life; Fox, Wesley and Booth striving to save other men; Mary Slessor driven by vocation from the Dundee mill to the African swamps--these are characteristic of them.