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He added, since Africa is the principal theatre of this awful trade and, as it were, the real land of slavery, we recommend to all missionaries to consecrate their whole strength, and even their lives, to this sublime work of redemption.

In conclusion, my dear Son, let me bring you back to thoughts of our faith. They alone can sustain you effectively in your responsibilities and give you the courage to work and to suffer following the example of Our Lord and in union with him.

You will also see there how much it approves the new direction we are opening up in the Middle East, a direction it is now asking several religious congregations working in the same centres to adopt, following our example.

We are falling back into pagan times, most Holy Father, and we can certainly do nothing better than follow the example of the Apostles and Martyrs if we wish once more to save the world from damnation.

To die to oneself is to leave the thoughts, the ideas of the world: it is to leave, not precisely sin, for it always escapes human frailty, but to leave the habit of sin.