_So Lois had found out something for herself at last, had she not?
Those are always the best sort of discoveries; but there are a great
many more things to find out about Saints that Lois never thought of,
in those days long ago. Most interesting things they are! That is one
comfort about Saints--they are always interesting, never dull. Dull is
the one thing that real Saints can never be, or they would stop being
Saints that very minute. Even when Saints are doing the dullest,
dreariest, most difficult tasks, they themselves are always packed
full of sunshine inside that cannot help streaming out over the dull
part and making it interesting._
_This is one thing to remember about Saints; but there are many other
things to discover. See if you can find out some of them in the
stories that follow._
_Only a few Saint stories are written here. You will read for
yourself, by and by, many others: stories of older Saints, and perhaps
of brighter Saints, or it may be even of saintlier Saints than these.
But in this book are written the stories of some of the Saints who did
not know that they were Saints at all: they thought that they were
just quite ordinary men and women and little children, and that makes
them rather specially comforting to us, who are just quite ordinary
people too._
_Moreover, these Quaker Saints never have been, never will be put on
glass windows, or given birthdays or haloes or emblems of their own,
like most of the other Saints. They have never even had their stories
told before in a way that it is easy for children to understand._
_That is why these particular stories have been written now, in this
particular book_