Excerpt from Madame Rose Lummis IT is a well-known adage, that when God selects souls for a special work, He very often makes choice of those who, in the eyes of the world, are the persons least fitted for the task. A plain, unlettered woman like Catherine of Sienna to influence Popes and Cardinals! And the bril liant Francis Xavier, so well adapted to impress the great and convert Europe, was, according to our ideas, thrown away on the obscure natives of China and the East Indies. Theresa of Avila, with her simple mind and frank charm of manner, exercised that marvellous influence from the solitude of Carmel; and we might enumerate many such instances from the days of St. Agnes downwards. In our own days, and among our own surroundings, history repeats itself. The great things for God are worked by instruments we should never have selected, yet they are the ones that succeed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.