faithful to the established power, the missionaries taught their neophytes not only religion, but also the respect due to the king.  Let us hearken to Father Allouez speaking to the mission of Sault Ste. Marie:  “Cast your eyes,” says he, “upon the cross raised so high above your heads.  It was upon that cross that Jesus Christ, the son of God, become a man by reason of His love for men, consented to be bound and to die, in order to satisfy His Eternal Father for our sins.  He is the master of our life, the master of Heaven, earth and hell.  It is He of whom I speak to you without ceasing, and whose name and word I have borne into all these countries.  But behold at the same time this other stake, on which are hung the arms of the great captain of France, whom we call the king.  This great leader lives beyond the seas; he is the captain of the greatest captains, and has not his peer in the world.  All the captains that you have ever seen, and of whom you have heard speak, are only children beside him.  He is like a great tree; the rest are only little plants crushed under men’s footsteps as they walk.  You know Onontio, the famous chieftain of Quebec; you know that he is the terror of the Iroquois, his mere name makes them tremble since he has desolated their country and burned their villages.  Well, there are beyond the seas ten thousand Onontios like him.  They are only the soldiers of this great captain, our great king, of whom I speak to you.”

Mgr. de Laval ardently desired, then, the arrival of new workers for the gospel, and in the year 1668, the very year of the foundation of the seminary, his desire was fulfilled, as if Providence wished to reward His servant at once.  Missionaries from France came to the aid of the priests of the Quebec seminary, and Sulpicians, such as MM. de Queylus, d’Urfe, Dallet and Brehan de Gallinee, arrived at Montreal; MM.  Francois de Salignac-Fenelon and Claude Trouve had already landed the year before.  “I have during the last month,” wrote the prelate, “commissioned two most good and virtuous apostles to go to an Iroquois community which has been for some years established quite near us on the northern side of the great Lake Ontario.  One is M. de Fenelon, whose name is well-known in Paris, and the other M. Trouve.  We have not yet been able to learn the result of their mission, but we have every reason to hope for its complete success.”

While he was enjoining upon these two missionaries, on their departure for the mission on which he was sending them, that they should always remain in good relations with the Jesuit Fathers, he gave them some advice worthy of the most eminent doctors of the Church:—­

“A knowledge of the language,” he says, “is necessary in order to influence the savages.  It is, nevertheless, one of the smallest parts of the equipment of a good missionary, just as in France to speak French well is not what makes a successful preacher.  The talents which make good missionaries are: