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These emissaries of God, they are there, before your eyes, ready to depart to follow the voice of the Saviour, to spread his benefits far and wide.

His paternal providence will watch over you. It will guide you on the immensity of the seas, it will refresh your souls under the heat of a new sky, it will sustain your courage, and it will prepare the rewards promised to his servants for you.

They will have only a wavering faith which they will quickly lose. For us, however, the essential point is to train men of faith; without this, they will be useless or even dangerous.

I have established in principle that our aim must be the regeneration of Africa by Africans; that to achieve this we must educate the greatest possible number of young Negroes and that they should be trained in medicine.

In fact, your Rules make specific provision for such a case and authorize you to establish,