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CHARACTER OF THE MISSIONARIES. 1G1 faith by which they were animated, and their boundless devotion to the interests of the Church, and the salva- tion of souls, made them entirely forgetful of self, and intent only on the sacred object of their mission. Am- bassadors chosen from any other class would not have offered, perhaps, at that period, the same guarantee of skill and self-abnegation, of zeal and fidelity. vol. i. m
