403.] [Footnote 2242: In order for a modern uninstructed non-believing reader to understand the motivation which moved thousands of self-less sisters and brothers to do their useful and kind work read St.Matthew chapter 25, verses 31 to 46 where Jesus predicts how he will sit in judgment on mankind and separate the sheep from the goats.

(SR.)] [Footnote 2243: "The Ancient Regime," P.33--Cf.

Guerin "The monastery of the Trois-Rois, in the north of Franche-Comte, founded four villages collected from foreign colonists.

It is the only center of charity and civilization in a radius of three leagues.

It took care of two hundred of the sick in a recent epidemic; it lodges the troops which pass from Alsace into Franche-Comte, and in the late hailstorm it supplied the whole neighborhood with food."] [Footnote 2244: Moniteur, sitting of February 13,1790.