inhabitants of the isle Del Moro.  He speaks to them of hell.  He exhorts them to repentance.  He says mass in the midst of an earthquake.  He is admired by the barbarians.  He is persecuted by a cruel and savage people.  His sufferings in the isle Del Moro; and the consolations which he there received.  He goes for Goa; and the reason that induced him.  He returns to Ternate.  His proceedings at Ternate.  He endeavours the conversion of the king of Ternate.  What hindered the king of Ternate’s conversion.  He labours with great fruit in the court of Ternate.  He leaves to the islanders a Christian instruction written with his own hand.  The counsel he gave the Ternatines at parting.  He renews his labours at Amboyna.  He is endued with the supernatural knowledge of some things.  A cross, erected by Xavier, becomes famous.  The constancy of the Christians in Amboyna.

The reputation of Xavier was not confined to the kingdom of Travancore; it was spread abroad through all the Indies; and the God of the Christians, at the same time, was had in so great veneration, that the most idolatrous nations sent to desire the saint, that he would come and give them baptism.  His joy was infinite, to find the Gentiles, of their own free motion, searching after the way of eternal life; but, on the other side, he was afflicted that he was not sufficient alone to instruct so many vast countries as were gone astray from it.

Seeing the harvest so great, and the labourers so few, he wrote earnestly to Father Ignatius in Italy, and to Simon Rodriguez in Portugal, for a supply of missioners.  He had such transports of zeal on that occasion, as to say, in one of his letters, “I have often thoughts to run over all the universities of Europe, and principally that of Paris, and to cry aloud to those who abound more in learning than, in charity, Ah, how many souls are lost to heaven through your default!  It were to be wished, that those people would apply themselves as diligently to the salvation of souls, as they do to the study of sciences; to the end they might render to Almighty God a good account of their learning, and the talents which he has bestowed on them.  Many, without doubt, moved with thoughts like these, would make a spiritual retreat, and give themselves the leisure of meditating on heavenly things, that they might listen to the voice of God.  They would renounce their passions, and, trampling under foot all worldly vanities, would put themselves in condition of following the motions of the divine will.  They would say, from the bottom of their hearts, behold me in readiness, O my Lord; send me wheresoever thou shalt please, even to the Indies, if thou commandest me.

“Good God, how much more happily would those learned men then live, than now they do! with how much more assurance of their salvation! and, in the hour of death, when they are ready to stand forth before the dreadful judgment-seat, how much greater reason would they have, to hope well of God’s eternal mercy, because they might say, O Lord, thou hast given me five talents, and behold I have added other five.