how unlike.  Who for an instant, could mistake Paul for Peter, or either of them for John.  They occupy salient angles of the great foundation, and lie nearest to the corner-stone, elect and precious.  Some of their brethren, though not visible in the front which meets the eye, may have done equal service in the bearing up of the mass.  Martyrs and confessors found their place, in succeeding ages, as the wall advanced; some as glorious for ornament as strong for use.  When love needed a signal display, amidst the blood of martyrdom, we see it immortalized in an Ignatius and a Polycarp.  When stalking heresy needed a front of steel to stand unmoved against all its columns, we find an “Athanasius against the world.”  When the language of Greece is to be elevated to new dignity by conveying the wonders of Christianity, we hear the golden eloquence of a Basil and a Chrysostom.  When Roman philosophy had died out of the world, we behold it revived in an Augustine, the father of the fathers.  Later down in ages, we catch glimpses even amidst Romish corruptions of a Bernard and a Kempis.  The note of alarm is given to a sleeping carnal church, first by Wicliff, Huss, and Jerome, then by Zwingle, Luther, Calvin, and Knox.

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=_Martin John Spaulding,[11] 1810-1872._=

From “Sketches of the Early Catholic Missions in Kentucky.”

=_35._= LIFE IN THE NEW SETTLEMENTS.

The early Catholic emigrants to Kentucky, in common with their brethren of other denominations, had to endure many privations and hardships.  As we may well conceive, there were few luxuries to be found in the wilderness, in the midst of which they had fixed their new habitations.  They often suffered even for the most indispensable necessaries of life.  To obtain salt, they had to travel many miles to the licks, through a country infested with savages; and they were often obliged to remain there for several days, until they could procure a supply.

There were then no regular roads in Kentucky.  The forests were filled with a luxuriant undergrowth, thickly interspersed with the cane, and the whole closely interlaced with the wild pea-vine.  These circumstances rendered them nearly impassable; and almost the only chance of effecting a passage through this vegetable wilderness, was by following the paths or traces made by the herds of buffalo and other wild beasts.  Luckily these traces were numerous, especially in the vicinity of the licks, which the buffalo were in the habit of frequenting, to drink the salt water, or lick the earth impregnated with salt.