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I recommend to you especially respect, deference and obedience in all your dealings with your superiors, remembering that one cannot give out orders if one does not know how to obey; and charity towards your confreres, remembering that it is by serving the others that one becomes worthy of leading them.

I am referring here, and as I do so I am moved in the depths of my soul, to the Blacks who have gone ahead of their brothers on the way to freedom and enlightenment. They must ardently desire to see an end to the misfortunes of this continent, which is their homeland, because it is their mother country.

I decided all this for the sake of spreading the faith, according to the powers given to me last year by Propaganda to establish missionaries in the interior of Equatorial Africa, wherever other Catholic congregations are not yet established.