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436 God." Father Sacchini devotes the fourth part of his Protrepticon to encouraging the members of the Society first, to offer themselves to the arduous but noble work of education: "The education of youth for many reasons deserves to be preferred by a zealous Jesuit to all the other ministries of the Order." He quotes the words of Pope Paul III., in the Bull of the confirmation of the Society: "They [the members of the Society] shall have expressly recommended to them the instruction of boys and ignorant people. ... For it is most necessary that the General and his council diligently watch over the management of this business; seeing that the edifice of faith cannot be raised in our neighbors without a foundation, and there may be danger among ourselves lest, as each is more learned, he may endeavor to evade this duty [of instructing the young], as at first sight perhaps less engaging: whilst in fact none is more productive, either of edification to our neighbors or of the practice of the duties of charity and humility to ourselves." Father Sacchini says that this volunteering and application for the work of education, far from being in any way opposed to obedience, on the contrary, is the most beautiful flower and