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 that young  man's  countenance  fell  and  he  sadly turned away. More frequently  the  call  comes  to  the poor and  humble  and  by  such  is  it  more  generally  and more readily  accepted. The fishermen  were  rough and unlettered,  as  unpromising,  seemingly,  for  any purposes of  usefulness  or  beauty  as  the  unhewn  log of wood  or  the  undressed  block  of  marble,  but  out of the  wood  may  be  fashioned  a  thing  of  beauty,  and within the  marble  may  lie  hid  an  angel. Julian, the apostate, was  wont  to  sneeringly  remark  that  Christ chose the  ignorant  as  more  gullible,  and  even  among alumni of  Catholic  colleges  you  will  sometimes  hear the brighter  men  reproach  the  duller  ones  with  having studied  for  the  priesthood  because  no  other path to  success  lay  open  to  them. The charge  is false  and  blasphemous. Not all  of  Christ's  disciples were rude  and  uncultured. Nicodemus and  Gamaliel and Nathanael  were  doctors  of  the  law;  Lazarus  and Joseph of  Arimathea  were  from  the  Judean  nobility; Paul and  Denis  the  Areopagite  and  the  many  Jewish priests, who,  as  we  read  in  the  Acts,  embraced  the faith, were  all  most  learned  men,  and  later  history records that  the  greatest  minds  that  ever  graced  this earth were  priests  of  God. And does  it  not  redound to God's  greater  glory  that  men  so  utterly  unfit  as were  the  fishermen  should  have  suddenly  become masters of  wisdom  and  of  eloquence,  linguists  versed in every  known  tongue,  and  stupendous  wonder-workers? That God  chose  such  feeble  means  wherewith to  conquer  Jewish  bigotry  and  convert  a  Pagan world served  the  double  purpose  of  illustrating  His