. Three Catholic Afro-American congresses [electronic resource]: a short resume of the work that has been done since the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, letters of the hierarchy, clergy and prominent laymen to the congresses, the sermons of Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop Elder, Archbishop Ryan and Father Mackey, speeches and portraits of prominent colored Catholics, their friends and institutions, the public addresses of the three most remarkable gatherings of Negroes in America : all nicely bound in cloth. cupation is honorable It is not so-cial position that makes the man, but the manner i
. Three Catholic Afro-American congresses [electronic resource]: a short resume of the work that has been done since the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, letters of the hierarchy, clergy and prominent laymen to the congresses, the sermons of Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop Elder, Archbishop Ryan and Father Mackey, speeches and portraits of prominent colored Catholics, their friends and institutions, the public addresses of the three most remarkable gatherings of Negroes in America : all nicely bound in cloth. cupation is honorable It is not so-cial position that makes the man, but the manner inwhich he exercises his liberty. Resolve to unite with your pastors in promoteing every good cause, and to aid them in every possi-ble way in the great work in which they are be to God, you belong to a church whichknows no north, no south, no east, no west, no race,no color, one which even the civil war could notdivide; a church which knows not, Jew, Greek orBarbarian. Our Saviour broke down the wall thatdivided men and made us one family; we know norace, There is no distinction in Church on account ofrace or condition. What more beautiful evidence ofthis can be found than to behold within the sanctuarya priest of your own race offering the Holy Sacrifice, 11 assisted by two of the order which has done so muchfor you? Is not this a beautiful spectacle. We haveone God, one Faitb, one Baptism. May God blessyou and may you have the ability and light to carryon the work you have SSnVV IIEV AUGUSTUS TOLTON, ILLINOIS. I again invoke upon you the blessing of Goists were Mrs. Irving, Miss Day. Miss L. Day, MissCoakley, Mr. Ignatius Jackson, Mr. James iSimms,Mr, W T, Benjamin aud Mr. Alphonsus was a chorus of forty voices. To say that themusical program was well rendered would by nomeans convey a just idea of the granduer of the har-monious sounds that floated over the heads of thelarge congregation. A larire number of ministers of other denomin
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