- 183 - all kinds of sacrifices. This happened at a time when I had resolved to do penance for my own sanctification.” Vianey, the Catholic priest of Ars, was canonized by his church. If it were within the power of man to canonize man at all, then the Protestant clergyman Blumhardt would be entitled to the same honour, for in point of character and effectiveness, and of the amazing gifts with which he was endowed from on high, he was in every way his Catholic fellow clergyman’s equal. The lives of these two men show that the good and the evil spirit powers are as actively involved with mankind today as they were at any time in the past, and that their workings are subject to the same laws.
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