Sub sole : or, Under the sun missionary adventures in the great Sahara . CHAPTER XIV. Satnts antr StoorUs, The Knights are dust, their good swords rust, Their souls are with the saints we trust.— WELVE months have past since the eventsrecorded in the last chapter. Nothingfurther has been seen or heard of thewhitefaced Jesuit, the grey sister, and thedeformed Arab El Ben Side. We trustthat they have disappeared for ever. During the past yearthe work of instruction and consolidation has been steadilygoing forward. I am sorry however to report that thework of conversion has almost come
Sub sole : or, Under the sun missionary adventures in the great Sahara . CHAPTER XIV. Satnts antr StoorUs, The Knights are dust, their good swords rust, Their souls are with the saints we trust.— WELVE months have past since the eventsrecorded in the last chapter. Nothingfurther has been seen or heard of thewhitefaced Jesuit, the grey sister, and thedeformed Arab El Ben Side. We trustthat they have disappeared for ever. During the past yearthe work of instruction and consolidation has been steadilygoing forward. I am sorry however to report that thework of conversion has almost come to a standstill. Aboutone half the population of the city are sincere and heartyChristians. The other half, especially since the rebellion(with which we find many thousands were in sympathy),retain a stolid indifference to all our arguments andappeals. Their favourite reply is that the religion of their 186 SAINTS AND SWORDS. fathers is good enough for them, that it is very easy tomake alterations and very difficult to make improve-ments—an admirable saying but in this case fear that many of these people have grieved the HolyGhost. None are so difficult to move as those who haveremai
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