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EARLY JESUITS OF MICHIGAN.
October, at Chegoimegon, the beautiful LaPointe of our day, he raised the standard of the cross and boldly preached its doctrines to the Hurons, in search of whom, Father Mesnard lost his life. Some of the converts of Father Mesnard and many heathen bands gathered around the solitary priest and listened to his words, yet they opened not their hearts readily to "the prayer. " He visited remote tribes and after seeing how broad was the harvest, and how ripe for the sickle, he descended in 1667 to Quebec for more
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