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pass, without making a concise exhortation, for the purpose of inspiring them with horror at those vices to which they are most addicted, or to confirm them in the practice of some particular virtue." Vide Lettres Edifiantes et Cur., vol. 6,

page 127.

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Two forms are now in that chapel dim,
The Jesuit, silent and sad and pale,
Anxiously heeding some fearful tale,
Which a stranger is telling him.
That stranger's garb is soiled and torn,
And wet with dew and loosely worn;
Her fair neglected hair falls down

O'er cheeks with wind and sunshine brown;
Yet still, in that disordered face,

The Jesuit's cautious eye can trace

Those elements of former grace,

Which, half effaced, seem scarcely less,
Even now, than perfect loveliness.

With drooping head, and voice so low

That scarce it meets the Jesuit's ears—

While through her clasp'd fingers flow,
From the heart's fountain, hot and slow,
Her penitential tears-

She tells the story of the wo

And evil of her years.

"Oh Father, bear with me; my heart
Is sick and death-like, and my brain
Seems girdled with a fiery chain,
Whose scorching links will never part,
And never cool again.

Bear with me while I speak but turn

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In a letter written by Ralle to his nephew, he gives the following account of his church, and his own labors. "All my converts repair to the church regularly twice every day; first, very early in the morning, to attend mass, and again in the evening, to assist in the prayers at sunset. As it is necessary to fix the imagination of savages, whose attention is easily distracted, I have composed prayers, calculated to inspire them with just sentiments of the august sacrifice of our altars: they chant, or at least recite them aloud, during mass. Besides preaching to them on Sundays and saint's days, I seldom let a working day pass, without making a concise exhortation, for the purpose of inspiring them with horror at those vices to which they are most addicted, or to confirm them in the practice of some particular virtue." Vide Lettres Edifiantes et Cur., vol. 6, page 127.

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