good and bad, and causing both joy and terror—­miraculously healing, for example, many who lay at the point of death, and bestowing special inward inspirations.  One of these Christians passed in front of a house where a minister of the Devil was offering to the demon his abominable sacrifice; and this very demon told him to prevent that Christian from entering; “for,” he said, “I am afraid of those Christians.”  How could those who heard this refrain from following that powerful God, when they saw that he whom they considered as such feared not only Him, but also, on account of their being Christians, those who formerly feared and worshiped him?  A sick woman, in an exhausted condition, offered herself to God, in her desire for health, and leaving her bed was carried near some images.  God our Lord cooperated with her faith in such a way that soon she was healed; and she made it public that the holy images had cured her.  In a village near that one, there was a sick woman, very aged, who was so obstinate in her infidelity that she would not be softened by the persuasions of the father who visited her.  A child who accompanied him took her hand, and described to her in vivid language the torments of hell, and so impressed her that she asked him:  “Dost thou know this?” The child responded:  “Yes, for God has said it, and so I believe it.”  With this he subdued her, and prepared her so that, after she better understood the catechism, she could receive after it holy baptism, and, at the same time, health of body and soul.

Of the Residence of Alangalang.  Chapter XXVIII.

This station lies in the interior of the island of Leite, five leguas distant from Carigara.  Its district is well inhabited, and has the advantage of a good soil.  Its distance, however, was so great that it could not well be visited from Carigara, especially considering the number of its population.  On this account, and as, in the allotment of the fourteen [new laborers], only one was assigned to Carigara (namely, Father Francisco de Enzinas), the latter was obliged to remain there in company with Father Mateo Sanchez; and Father Cosme de Flores had to go to establish the Christian faith in Alangalang, on account of his knowledge of the language, and the esteem and affection in which he was held by the Indians.  The first care of this blessed father was to bring together, with great gentleness and kindness, the inhabitants of all those villages, especially those who were most remote and could be less easily assisted to reaching that station—­so that a large colony might be formed there, as was done.  He was establishing his church, his house, and his school among them, and beginning a Christian community, when it pleased our Lord to take him unto Himself, leaving his Indians orphans, disconsolate, and alone.  Thus they remained for several months, for there was at the time no one who could supply their need except a brother who had accompanied the father; and he consoled them by teaching them—­but without administering the sacraments, as he was a lay-brother.  The fathers at Carigara could not help them, being prevented by their own occupations.