Excerpt from For the Missions, the Apostolate in Africa Has it ever occurred to you to think what a great priv ilege we enjoy in being born in a Catholic country, blessed with the precious gifts of the faith and a Christian educa tion, surrounded by good examples and abundant sources of grace, by which we can so easily profit? To know God and how to serve him, which appears to us so simple and easy, nevertheless constitutes for the bulk of mankind a most difficult problem to solve and one which seems to us to be almost incapable of solution by many. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.