A person can seem, to the eye that is conventional and vain, afflicted or unfortunate in their circumstance, appearance, or aptitudes, and in fact, because of it, might know themself to be the object of scorn, or sentimentality, or a pity that is baseless in its exaggeration, and yet be possessed of such a will, and power of discernment, that their life becomes holy, and is more useful to providence than those of the most celebrated personalities and historical figures.