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"When"SEMTXATCY OF LYONS. 35indeed, thought it advisable to simplify hia mode of instruction. A secret presentiment told him that the HolySpirit would put the finishing stroke to the work which hewas preparing ;that He would do for the intellect of hispious pupil what He had already done for his heart, andiu His own good time teach him all truth. After a yearor two of assiduous care on the part of the master, andpersevering efforts on that of the disciple, M. Bailey thoughthe might venture to present him for examination at theGreat Seminary of Lyons. Alas, this presentation was tolead to the greatest of all those humiliations by which itpleased God to achieve in his soul that interior work ofuniversal abnegation which was to render him hereafteran instrument of such admirable pliancy in His hands.God," says M. "Monnin, has made choice ofa soul, and predestinatedit to something great, He marksit with His own seal, and that seal is the cross."Jean Marie no sooner appeared in the awful presenceof the examiners than his self-possession entirely desertedhim, his memory became a blank, and to the questionsaddressed to him he returned incoherent and inconsequentreplies, which gave all present the impression that heknew nothing whatever of the subjects of his examination.He was somewhat summarily dismissed. M. Bailey, whoof course had his full share of his pupil s discredit, went atonce to the superior of the seminary, and requested himto come the next day with one of the Vicars-General andexamine the disappointed candidate in private. The result of this second trial was, as he had hoped, satisfactory.Jean Marie was admitted into the Great Seminary of St.Irenaeus to prepare for holy orders.The impression left of him upon the minds of his fellow-seminarists is thus given by M. Monnin :He