From these notes we shall here make a few quotations bearing on the point made above--i.e., that his difficulties prior to his entrance into the church were neither moral nor spiritual, but intellectual.

Of him, if of any man, it was always true that his heart was naturally Christian.

The first of these extracts, bearing as it does on a topic constantly in his thoughts, affords a good enough example of what was meant in saying that his confidences were sometimes taken by surprise: "There are some for whom the predominant influence is the external one, authority, example, precept, and the like.

Others in whose lives the interior action of the Holy Spirit predominates.

In my case, from my childhood God influenced me by an interior light and by the interior touch of His Holy Spirit." At another time he said: "While I was a youth, and in early manhood, I was preserved from certain sins and certain occasions of sin, in a way that was peculiar and remarkable.