For those tribes, pacified and converted to the true Faith, having once tasted the.charms of a civilized and christian life, are mot to be contented with the mere passing visits of an apostolic Missionary, though it be he who has called them from their social misery to the genial light of the Gospel.

 Naturally enough they desire to have him continually amongst them, not only to direct, instruct and console them through life, but also and more especially to be by him assisted in sickness, and comforted by his hope-ispiring presence on the eve of entering the uncertain passage which leads to eternity..

 He himself requires a goodly number for the Mission I have confides to his care in the vast Bra­zilian Empire, more extensive in itself than the whole of Europe together, and peopled almost exclusively by savages who range the immense forest of their native plains, languishing through ages for some friendly hand to draw them out of the ignominious barbarity in which they have been entombed for centuries, and which they may yet be condemned to for who knows how many generations, if the zeal of the Missionary, sustained by the charity of the faithful, does mot come to succour and liberate them..

 We will inscribe your name and theirs in the registers of our Pious Institution, to remember them every day in our prayers, to implore from heaven copious benedictions upon you and upon all those who benefit us, upon your families and upon your undertakings, confident that God will inscribe them in the Book of Life, the Book of the Predestined, for, as St.

 An attempt is being made to draw their children from the faith, and the parents are most anxious for a priest who can look after them..