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t h rhe great missionary , Father (later Bishop), Frederick Baraga, eame
there to open a misaion once more, and from there once again would he,
and another Slovenian prjest, Father Pierz, crosa the great Lake to sow
the Goapel d the territory of Fort WilJiarn Diom.
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It ia beeide our purpoee to iollow the subaequent career of Fatber
Allouez. For twenty more years h ieaboured among the Potawatomiea,
Miarnis, and Illinois tribes souih and wcst of Lake Michigan. During
the night of August 27-28, 1a9, nent what je now the city of Niles,
Michigan, he passed to hi9 well-merited reward. Like Brebeuf he had
written a description of what kind OC man the Indian missionary of
thow days must be. It was iound among his papers after hi^ death, and
thus, quite uncon~ciously, he portrays for un a sketch of his own iife and
character.
"The Jeauils who corne irom old France to New Frsnce muat be
reUed by a specinl and particularly sirong vocation. They must be men
dead lo the apirit of ihr world sud tu trhrmsrlvee. apoatalir men. aainily
men. who seek uothjng but Lmi and the saivation of souls. They mwt
be lovera of the cross and of self-abnegatjon; they must prefer ihe cou.
veraian ai an Tndian ta conquering an empire. They have io ]ive in ibe
Canadian foresin au pwursora of Christ, and be in a small way other
John the Baptiçts crying out in the wildernesa to the Indiuns thet heppi-
MbU cunies tlimugh Christ alonc. They muat saek their oniy sup ai?,
ind receive th~ir only cornfort, snd hnd ihejr onlg lrtssure in God &ne,
for LO Him aloaa it belonga to cal1 ibem to Caaada.. .
"To convpri ihe Indian ihere ip no nemd of miracles. bot there in
gmat need of doing thm much good, of suRering much, 01 nncr cuiii-
plainjng exc~l to God alonn, end of mgetding oneseli es a very uselem
sud unpmfriabl eervant aller di . . ." !37)

(3ll Mqy, Diconverkm ei Eiabüswmenis, eic. (Parir, 187&1386), vol. 1, pp.
il. 72.
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