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My dear Son,
The upsurge in applications you bring to my notice is very important, but you must act with great prudence. Above all, you must absolutely omit any religious propaganda.

In 1887, Lavigerie is slandered in a newspaper for being a multimillionaire. Someone wrote in defence of Lavigerie.

Letter of greetings to the missionaries (3rd January 1881)
The purpose of these various measures has always been the same: to anticipate the storms which are breaking today, and which will quickly overwhelm us and to provide safe havens for the Society’s missionaries and at the same time a welcome boost to their zeal until the revolution passes.

Memorandum on the Evangelisation of Equatorial Africa (1st January 1878)
For the moment, I press on, so as not to compromise by delay a cause which I consider as one of the most important of the present time, for it is many centuries since the Church and the Holy See have had a more decisive and more favourable opportunity, if we know how to benefit from it, by striking a blow to decide the religious future of peoples and ensure the triumph of the apostolate.