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.

 But as our dear Co-operators may easily understand, the outfitting of so numerous a body incurs an enormous expenditure in Sacred articles and vestments, in clothing and habiliments generally, in church ornaments, school furniture and household utensils, with­out speaking of the not indifferent and more pressing expenses of baggage and travelling both by sea and land.

 Wherefore I make a fresh appeal to your charity; harken to the Missioner's voice and the imploring cry which arises from hundreds of thousands of abandoned wretches in those far distant regions! Once more I implore our Benefactors to render us practicable this new expedition by assisting us in especial manner with their fervent prayers and with whatever offering they can send us, either in linen or linen-garments, in cloth or clothing, in church furniture or sacred vessels, or better still in money with which to defray the expenses of travelling and transport of luggage both by land and sea, - in short with whatever alms their piety suggests and their condition permits..

 At the Oratory in Turin, whence our Missionaries will set forth, we shall receive with gratitude whatever your industrious charity may think well to consacrate to this generous undertaking.

 [718] On the day selected for the departure of the Missioners I intend to confer with my beloved Co-operators in the Sanctuary of Mary Help of Christians, and while I now invite you, I cannot help begging you to have the goodness to search amongst your acquaintances and friends, whoever might desire to concur with his mite to this work of humanity and faith..

 But my advanced age and many infirmi­ties are telling on me lately, so that I am often obliged to suspend duties which it would be my desire to ultimate with all possible dispatch..

 I should have been more solicitous in thanking Your Grace for the marked benevolence [800] with which you have honoured our Pious Society and my poor person in particular.