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EARLY JESUITS OF MICHIGAN.

model in life the great Xavier, and longed, like him, to devote his days to the conversion of the heathen, and like him, to die in the midst of his labors in a foreign land, alone. Although he had not that joyous hilarity of soul, that gay buoyancy of spirit and that wonderful power over men that so distinguished the Apostle to the Indies, he had much of that sweetness of disposition, that genial temperament, that facile adaptation to the surrounding circumstances, that depth of love and that apostolic zeal that belonged to that
 
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