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almost despair, in the search for truth. We are 

 not rationalists ; we are not agnostics ; for we 

 believe that God is the only source of truth, 

 that in Him are all the treasures of wisdom and 

 knowledge, and that though we have nothing 

 which we do not receive, yet He giveth to all men 

 liberally of His gifts of grace and truth. 



It is, on the whole, a true instinct which makes 

 men judge of truth by the temper of the teacher. 

 Ubi hnmilitas, ibi sapientia. Perhaps in the great 

 unveiling of secrets there will be found among the 

 greatest saints some whose names never found 

 their way into the Church's calendar ; and among 

 the noblest lives the lives of those whom their 

 contemporaries never knew ; and among the most 

 real benefactors of mankind those whose ambition 

 it was to remain unknown ; and among the truest 

 pioneers of truth the men who could not, or would 

 not, recognize their greatness. The really great 

 men of every age are those who do not fear 

 to confess their littleness, their insignificance com- 

 pared with the truth they teach, their dependence 

 on that truth for all that they have or are. Their 

 greatness is that they are ambassadors, ministers, 

 stewards ; their littleness that they are what they 

 are, ready to read their own meaning into what 

 they teach and so failing to teach it truly. In 

 them, as in the great forerunner of the Christ, the 

 greatness of their message dwarfs into insig- 



