E.N. In connection with this is a concrete question: what does our era dictate to a missionary?

V.E. Before anything, attention to the interlocutor. It is needed to return to yourself an account that you are not educating Aleuts (Eskimos), that that person, your interlocutor, is not stupider than you. By the heart he can be closer to God than you. Thus, begin with reconciliation and then we’ll see.