They will be but the initiators.
Therefore, they will be but the initiators. Those who will live with the native peoples and stir them up, finishing by converting them will be the children we are raising from these same countries.

Letter to Monsignor Dusserre (29 January 1888)
It is to Algiers that I belong, through the first bonds. It is to Algiers that I must dedicate this day which, so to speak, will provide me with a resume of the most precious memories of my life in Africa.

Letter to his friend Bishop Foulon, Archbishop of Besançon (3 January 1887)
Reverend and Dear Monsignor,
I thank your Grace for your best wishes, and I send mine to you in return. They are sincere like old friendships, because, in truth, ours has been going on for almost half a century.

Lettre au Supérieur général sur la manière de visiter les communauté (20 janvier 1875)
Mon cher Père,
Vous allez entreprendre pour la première fois la visite de vos maisons. Je veux vous dire ce qui me parait le plus utile à faire dans ces visites et ce qui se fait, du reste, dans toutes les communautés bien ré- glées.

Letter to the Superior General concerning catechist-doctors (5th January 1884)
Dear Father
As for the young people who will keep on arriving from Lille one after the other, I think it would be best to spread them out into the different mission posts where their presence would be most useful, as in Kabylia, at Les Attafs, or elsewhere.

Letter to Mother Marie Claver on Fidelity to Spiritual Combat (12 January 1888)
My Dear Daughter in Our Lord,
I could not repeat to you too often that the essence of the spiritual life, and consequently of perfection, lies in belonging to God with the whole of one’s will.

Letter to Father Charbonnier, Superior general (17th January 1883)
Dear Father,
We really do not understand what is making you bitter and upsetting you in this way, making you see the situation of our work in so distorted a manner and in such a dim light.

Letter to Mgr Livinhac on the finances for the coming caravan (15 January 1885)
Dear Monsignor,
I have just received the answer of the Councils for the Work of Propaganda Fide to the latest requests I had addressed to them in order to cover the travel expenses of the caravans for the four missions of Equatorial Africa.

Report sent to the Propagation of the Faith of Lyon (15th January 1883)
Our operations have so far not been troubled, but the government, jealous of the influence they have and worried especially by the thought that we might ‘clericalise’ Kabylia and become its great electors, is preparing to compete with us.

Circular letter to the Missionaries (14th January 1882)
I am writing to you from Carthage, only a few steps away from where Saint Cyprian suffered death. He is surely one of the great martyrs. Yet he never stopped seeking to avoid danger until the day he felt his conscience committed to raising up the faith of his flock by the testimony of his blood. You must do likewise, my dear Sons.

Circular letter to the Missionaries (14th January 1882)
Fathers Richard, Morat and Pouplard have shed their blood for those poor people for whom they had made themselves Apostles and on whom they had already showered their blessings.