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EARLY JESUITS OF MICHIGAN.

love. " They have, " he writes in 1672, " come regularly to prayers and have listened more readily to the instructions I have given them, consenting to what I have required, to prevent their disorders and abominations. We must have patience with untutored minds who know only the devil, who, like their ancestors, have been his slaves and who often relapse into the sins in which they were nurtured. God alone can fix their feeble minds and place and keep them in his grace, and touch their hearts while we stammer at their ears. "
 
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