After Providence, the same charitable ladies, who had taken care of his every want during his stay at Stanislas College, made it possible for him to enter into the house of the Foreign Missions of France. This apparently solved every question that might arise concerning his future, and yet such was not the plan of God. Something higher, something greater was in store for him. His zeal for the glory of God was not to be narrowed down within the limits of one single country. His was to be a mission as world-wide as that of the Apostles. To him as to them it was said: Go forth to teach all nations.