CHAPTER III.
TRIBUTES TO THE FLATHEADS AND OTHER TRIBES.'
Testimony of Lieutenant Mullan and Governor Stevens - Progress in agriculture and useful arts - Pious devotions - Stolen horses returned - Advancement of the Cmur d'Alenes - The Indian outbreak.
Brussels, Feast of St. Xavier, December 3, 1856.
Reverend Mother:
The festival of to-day renews in my mind the recollection of the pleasant time I'spent at Erps, last Monday. I must again thank you for the kind reception I received at your convent and academy.
The repeated invitations you have extended to me, since my return to Belgium, through Father Terwecoren, who took me there, made it a duty on my part to go. I owed you this visit also personally, Reverend Mother, on account of the ties which always have existed, and still exist, between your family and mine. This recommendation was made to me at Termonde. It was, indeed, pleasant for me to meet you, after thirty-five years' absence, and especially to find you consecrated to God by the vows of religion. During my long travels over the world, I have always found in religious communities the greatest amount of happiness to which man can aspire here below.
But independent of this personal motive, the Academy of the Servants of Mary would leave, in my mind, a most pleasing recollection. I shall never forget this little family festival, the charitable and pious words addressed to me by one of your scholars, in the name of her companions; the
1 To the Mother Superior of the Convent and Academy of ErpsQuerbs, between Brussels and Louvain. From Western Missions and Missionaries, p. 275.
CHAPTER III.
TRIBUTES TO THE FLATHEADS AND OTHER TRIBES.'
Testimony of Lieutenant Mullan and Governor Stevens - Progress in agriculture and useful arts - Pious devotions - Stolen horses returned - Advancement of the Cmur d'Alenes - The Indian outbreak.
Brussels, Feast of St. Xavier, December 3, 1856.
Reverend Mother:
The festival of to-day renews in my mind the recollection of the pleasant time I'spent at Erps, last Monday. I must again thank you for the kind reception I received at your convent and academy.
The repeated invitations you have extended to me, since my return to Belgium, through Father Terwecoren, who took me there, made it a duty on my part to go. I owed you this visit also personally, Reverend Mother, on account of the ties which always have existed, and still exist, between your family and mine. This recommendation was made to me at Termonde. It was, indeed, pleasant for me to meet you, after thirty-five years' absence, and especially to find you consecrated to God by the vows of religion. During my long travels over the world, I have always found in religious communities the greatest amount of happiness to which man can aspire here below.
But independent of this personal motive, the Academy of the Servants of Mary would leave, in my mind, a most pleasing recollection. I shall never forget this little family festival, the charitable and pious words addressed to me by one of your scholars, in the name of her companions; the
1 To the Mother Superior of the Convent and Academy of ErpsQuerbs, between Brussels and Louvain. From Western Missions and Missionaries, p. 275.