Excerpt from The Examination of Candidates for Holy Orders: A Letter to the Lord Bishop of Salisbury Bishop's addresses, and to the after consideration of them, which would be so desirable. It has been said to me by a young man, two or three years after his Ordination, that he would not on any con sideration go through such another week, for that the strain of trying at these intervals to separate his thoughts from the mere examination was almost more than he could endure. And this sort of feeling is not a passing one. Not long ago I received a letter from a total stranger, thanking me for some words written in a preface to the Life of S. Vincent de Paul, on this subject, and expressing his hope that something might result from the suggestions, so that others might be spared the retrospect on what, after a lapse of twenty years, stood out before his memory as the unsatisfactory days of his Ordina tion week. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.