. The First American Catholic Missionary Congress. first Jtmriasn CaiDoIfc IHissiosiary Congress. often puffs it up to sleek and oily fatness, and transforms whatGod gave us as a blessed gift into sloth and indolence. Thenthe very promise of indefectibility is made an excuse for care-lessness, and abundance of light a plea for blindness. Whilethe gates of hell may not prevail against the institution, yetthey sometimes claim individual victims whose greatest sur-prise will be to find that such an excuse as We did nothingis in itself a condemnation most dread and terrible. Caution has been urgin
. The First American Catholic Missionary Congress. first Jtmriasn CaiDoIfc IHissiosiary Congress. often puffs it up to sleek and oily fatness, and transforms whatGod gave us as a blessed gift into sloth and indolence. Thenthe very promise of indefectibility is made an excuse for care-lessness, and abundance of light a plea for blindness. Whilethe gates of hell may not prevail against the institution, yetthey sometimes claim individual victims whose greatest sur-prise will be to find that such an excuse as We did nothingis in itself a condemnation most dread and terrible. Caution has been urging us for ten years to keep silent, asit has urged others for over fifty years, but the ten and fiftyhave gone and the very stillness of the hills and the valleyswhich should ring with the hymns of Gods praise, is, strangeanomaly, the loudest cry that someone speaks at last. Millionsof souls, starving for the Word of God and the Bread of Life,wail out from the shadows behind them. The cry of anothermillion neglected and pastorless, rings in our ears now. Iwas hungry and you gave me not to eat.
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