_ 35 _ that those who have no consideration for God and their consciences will certainly not have it for you. When you have time, you will devote it to the conversion of the infidel. Above all, you will never neglect a universal for a particular good, such as abandoning preaching so as to hear a confession, or failing to teach daily prayers at the appropriate time for some individual matter. One hour before teaching the prayers, either you or your companion will go through the town summoning people to come for Christian Religious Instruction. You will write a detailed account to the college, as if you were doing it to Our Lord God, of all your work and the fruit that God produces through you, because the letters you write to the college will serve to be sent to Portugal. Write edifying things in them which will move those who read them to serve God. You will also write to His Lordship the Bishop and to Cosmo Eanes about the progress of your work out there. Right from the beginning, strive to find out from very honest people about the dealings of the men of that city. Be well informed about them so as to admonish them, both in public as well as in confession, because of their bad habits of usury.
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