AT THE DOOR OF THE CHURCH--CONTINUED THE first Bishop of Boston, John Louis de Cheverus, who left that diocese to become successively the Bishop of Montauban and the Cardinal-Archbishop of Bordeaux, was, in the strictest sense, a missionary during his American episcopate.

Thoroughly French in blood, in training, in manners, and in zeal, his penetrating intelligence not less than his saintly life and his tireless charity recommended him to men of all creeds and of none.

His departure from Boston was regarded by all its citizens as a public misfortune, and by himself as cause for profound personal sorrow.

He had learned there a lesson of liberty which he found it hard to forget when he went away.

One of his biographers records that Charles X., whose offer to make him Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs Cheverus had declined, once questioned him concerning the liberty enjoyed by the Church in the United States.