If God had wanted somebody with St. Francis's consistently winning personality for the job in the New Testament, he'd've picked him, you can be sure. As it was, he picked the best, the smartest, the most loving, the least sentimental the most un itative master he could possibly have picked. And when you miss seeing that, I swear to you, you're missing the whole point of the Jesus Prayer. The Jesus Prayer has one aim, and one aim . To endow the person who says it with Christ-consciousness. to set up some little cozy, holier-than-thou trysting place with some sticky, adorable divine sonage who'll take you in his arms and relieve you of all your duties and make all your nasty and Professor Tuppers go away and never come back. And by God, if you have intelligence enough to see that--and you --and yet you refuse to see it, then you're misusing the prayer, you're using it to ask for a world full of dolls and saints and no Professor Tuppers.