DEDICATORY EPISTLE.

...surpassed your years, and your merit surpassed your age: so that, if we call the years to account, you were not yet mature for bearing the burdens of honors (you would say burdens); yet in the judgment of your elders, you were already judged worthy. Whence, first as Rector of Gymnasia, and subsequently of three colleges in succession, you pleased everyone as a most accurate asserter of Scholastic and Regular Discipline, as well as economic affairs; and most especially those who, from the well-adorned sphere of your province, predicted as not-vain augurs that your Virtue was to be raised to higher degrees. Neither vow nor augury failed; since three lustrums 15 years ago, Rome nominated you Moderator of the German Province. Thence, the Religion Councils to be celebrated therein; first with this respectable character: Secondly, you were elected as what we call Vocalis a voting member, to attend the Fathers to be gathered again by the suffrage of votes, and you were found skillful, so that you reached the six-year Assistance of our Father General in Rome; until, most happily returned from the most recently terminated General Congregation, you were moved for the third time to the government of the Scholae Piae Pious Schools of Germany as a salutary...