. Sadlier's excelsior studies in the history of the United States, for schools. nly, had terrible obstacles to surmountbefore they could christianize these dusky children of the forest butthe Church that had tamed and civilized the fierce tribes that overranthe Roman Empire, was not to be appalled at new diflSculties. Thedivine command of Christ was with them; Go teadi all nations,^*We shall see, in the sequel, their success with the poor Indian. 10. Voyages ol tke Northmen. — Iceland was visited by theIrish, in theninth century,or earlier; andthe continent ofNorth America1 was discoveredH by
. Sadlier's excelsior studies in the history of the United States, for schools. nly, had terrible obstacles to surmountbefore they could christianize these dusky children of the forest butthe Church that had tamed and civilized the fierce tribes that overranthe Roman Empire, was not to be appalled at new diflSculties. Thedivine command of Christ was with them; Go teadi all nations,^*We shall see, in the sequel, their success with the poor Indian. 10. Voyages ol tke Northmen. — Iceland was visited by theIrish, in theninth century,or earlier; andthe continent ofNorth America1 was discoveredH by the Norwe-gians, or North-^ men, in thei tenth. 7_ In the year J 1000, Catholic a missionaries iound their way to Greenland, and before long its churches and convents began to compare favorably with those of the mother country.* * This much at least is certain : that sixty-five years previous to the discoveryof Iceland by the Northmen in the 9th century, Irish emigrants had visited andinhabited that island ; that about the year 725, Irish ecclesiastics had sought seclusioD. m HOBMAi^ AMERICA PREVIOUS TO 1492.
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