liation. I regard it as most lavish pay for many faithful
services that our Lord should consent to employ one in these missions,
and that one may behold His mercy toward these new Christians. I have
just visited the people of Ugyao, and to live among them, enjoying
the mercies which God conters upon them, seems to me like Paradise."

Such is the father's general account; I will illustrate the details
by only two instances. While a father was sojourning in one of those
seacoast villages, there arrived in a little boat a solitary Indian,
to the astonishment of all, as he had neither feet nor hands. But
God and his good angel aided him to steer the boat, and so he
reached that place where the father was, and urgently asked him
for baptism. The reason for this was, that he had heard a Spaniard
say that those who were not Christians went to hell. The father
baptized him with great satisfaction, and gave praises to our Lord
that He had preserved this man on the sea, and had guided that little
vessel and a man who was alone, and bereft of hands and feet. There
were some persons--especially a Spaniard in whose charge he was--who
earnestly desired that a certain Indian should become a Christian. This
Spaniard sought to convert him by arguments and inducements, and by
other efforts; but apparently he became steadily more hardened. At
that time one of our brethren chanced (although it was not without
divine Providence) to speak to him of the things of heaven; and all
at once that soul turned in earnest toward our Lord. At his baptism
the Spaniard acted as his godfather, and was much gratified at seeing
his pious desire fulfilled.

Great benefits have resulted from the schools and the education of
the children; for these pupils are, in their homes, teachers to their
own parents, and in the villages through which they are scattered
they arouse the people to devotion. A young boy, one of the singers
in the church, thus replied to a Spaniard who communicated to him his
evil desires, in order that the youth might help him to attain them:
"Sir, I know of an excellent remedy for this temptation which thou
art suffering. Do thou repeat a rosary to the Virgin Mary, and I
will say another in thy behalf; thus thou wilt drive away these evil
thoughts." Thus he who should by right have been the teacher was
himself instructed by this new Christian.

Other events in the same residence of Alangalang and in
Carigara. Chapter LXXV.

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