. 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. ulture and advancement of the races. By raisingthe human soul to, communion Avith the
. 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. ulture and advancement of the races. By raisingthe human soul to, communion Avith the IncarnateSon of God—the ideal man—she sank deep thefoundation of natural and supernatual virtues. Tofaith, hope and charity were wedded manliness ofcharacter, intellectuality of thought, liberty ofmovement. The activity of charity went hand inhand with the energies of mind and body, and thusman moved with rapid strideB on the road of civiliza-tion. In view of these luminous facts of history, I daretoday to insist upon the education, manual, industrialand intellectual of our down-trodden race. I urgemy claim and your claims in the Sacred Name andunder the auspices of our loving and generous motherthe Catholic Church. As a child of the Catholi 9/ faith I shall be manly, earnest and free, but yetcharitable in the defense of our righte iu the exposi-tion of our needs. The first great necessity of anyman or nation is to know God his Creator, to fullymnderstand his relations and obligations to him, and. PROF. L. D. EASTOX, OHIO. his own eternal destination, which knowledge furthsered and strengthened by the consistent teachingend actions of Gods representative. The Catholichurch makes him understand and appreciate hisdignity as man, stirs within him a desirefor all that 98 is enobling, and causes his heart to expand with thelove and gratitude of which it has not humbled th«the Son of God Himself to be jealous. Next in order is education, becaase educationalone, save in exceptio
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