Perfectly happy, he felt himself more and more impelled to bring others to share his happiness and to proclaim in the four corners of the world how he had attained it.

He resolved, therefore, to undertake a new mission.

A few days were spent in preparing for it.

The Three Companions have preserved for us the directions which he gave to his disciples: "Let us consider that God in his goodness has not called us merely for our own salvation, but also for that of many men, that we may go through all the world exhorting men, more by our example than by our words, to repent of their sins and bear the commandments in mind.

Be not fearful on the ground that we appear little and ignorant, but simply and without disquietude preach repentance.