No, he will have immediate and practical proofs of conversion.

Men must give up ill-gotten gains, renounce their enmities, be reconciled with their adversaries.
At Assisi he threw himself valiantly into the thick of civil dissensions.

The agreement of 1202 between the parties who divided the city had been wholly ephemeral.

The common people were continually demanding new liberties, which the nobles and burghers would yield to them only under the pressure of fear.

Francis took up the cause of the weak, the _minores_, and succeeded in reconciling them with the rich, the _majores_.
His spiritual family had not as yet, properly speaking, a name, for, unlike those too hasty spirits who baptize their productions before they have come to light, he was waiting for the occasion that should reveal the true name which he ought to give it.[19] One day someone was reading the Rule in his presence.