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lodged in the college of Jesuits. The Padres are in attend¬ 
ance upon him. Two months of agony wear toward a close; 
and death begins to chill his limbs, glaze his eyes, and chain 
his utterance : and when he can no longer stir, he calls to him 
his faithful companion, Jayme Bravo, and in the most earnest 
manner, giving him instruction and powers for acting in his 
stead at Mexico, commends him and his beloved missions to 
the guardianship of Heaven. And now a hero dies! Not 
one who has swung the brand of war over the villages and 
cities of nations; not one who has crushed the hearts of 
men, yoked them in bondage, and severed every tendril of 
mercy and justice from the governing powers; not such a 
hero as men will worship; but a great and good man, 
offering life and every capacity of happiness within him 
to the well-being of savages in a barren waste of mountains; 
a hero in the heavenly armor of righteousness, endur¬ 
ing fatigue, hunger, thirst, and constant danger among the 
flinty, unwatered wastes of unthinking and uninstructed hu¬ 
man nature; a missionary of a Californian wilderness! 
All the people of the city and neighboring villages crowd to 
the college, and kneel through the streets and alleys, on the 
balconies and roofs of the houses, and pray for the repose of 
the departed soul of Padre Salva Tierra. There is no noise 
in Guadalaxara, nor business; it is a city of prayer: they 
come one after another and kneel and pray, and silently 
retire; thirty thousands of people beseech Heaven with one 
earnest desire—that he whom they have loved, he who has 
labored so ardently in propagating the faith, may find a man¬ 
sion of repose and reward in the upper world ! Some Cali¬ 
fornian Indians, whom he has brought with him, exhibit 
extraordinary grief; the whole city assists at the interment; 
they bury him in the chapel he has erected many years ago 
to the Virgin of Loretto. And thus end the mortal part and 
mortal deeds of Padre Salva Tierra. But his remembrance 
is written in the imperishable record of those great minds 
