Storia do Mogor 281.27.1

281.27.1

But whatever they may have written, we feel we are safe. We are the more so, for we know that your charity having commenced so holy a work, that having laboured so hard and taken so much trouble, you will continue to show the same bowels of mercy and compassion as before; that you will not throw up an affair on which depends the peace of so many feeble Christians. Had they only the same strength and courage as those of the primitive Church, it would be unnecessary for us to make such efforts of solicitation on their behalf. But their natural timidity obliges us to afford them special help. This is the reason that the fathers of the Mission have given me fresh orders to report everything to you, and to urge you, by the wounded side of Jesus Christ, our common Redeemer, to kindly take up our cause, forgetting past disappointments and fatigues, but fixing your eyes only upon the glory of God and the salvation of these feeble and afflicted Christians. These latter centre all their hopes upon the credit you enjoy, your piety, and your generosity.