. Sadlier's excelsior studies in the history of the United States, for schools. FATHER MARQUETTE AMONG THE INDIANS. (Page 108.) the labors of the early missionaries on our soil. vVe haveseen, in the two preceding centuries, how amid the tropical 92 EXCELSIOR HISTORY. heats of the South, they braved danger, hardship, and evendeath in the cause of their Master. We have now to beholdthem amid the snows of the North; and the heart that doesnot thrill at the history of a {hre-huf), a Jogues,or a Marquette {-Tcet), must be hardened indeed. 3. Explorations of the Missionaries. — It so happen
. Sadlier's excelsior studies in the history of the United States, for schools. FATHER MARQUETTE AMONG THE INDIANS. (Page 108.) the labors of the early missionaries on our soil. vVe haveseen, in the two preceding centuries, how amid the tropical 92 EXCELSIOR HISTORY. heats of the South, they braved danger, hardship, and evendeath in the cause of their Master. We have now to beholdthem amid the snows of the North; and the heart that doesnot thrill at the history of a {hre-huf), a Jogues,or a Marquette {-Tcet), must be hardened indeed. 3. Explorations of the Missionaries. — It so happens, moreover, that the missionaries were the pioneersnot alone of the Cross and of religion, but of discovery andexploration, of colonization and civilization. Of white men,they were the first to sail over our great rivers and greatlakes, as well as the first to traverse our magnificent wood-lands. More than one, in his apostolic journeys, passed fromthe mouth of the St. Lawrence to the Mississippi and Texas,and returned by sea, thus making the circuit of what theentire Uni
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