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ings, we may observe that the teachmgs of the 

 school of Loyola had not been wholly without 

 ejffect in the formation of their ethics. 



But when we see them, in the gloomy February 

 of 1637, and the gloomier months that followed, 

 toiling on foot from one infected town to another, 

 wading through the sodden snow, under the bare 

 and diipping forests, drenched with incessant rains, 

 till they descried at length through the storm the 

 clustered dwellings of some barbarous hamlet, — 

 when we see them entering, one after another, 

 these wretched abodes of misery and darkness, and 

 all for one sole end, the baptism of the sick and 

 dying, we may smile at the futility of the object, 

 but we must needs admire the self-sacrificing zeal 

 with which it was pursued. 



