. 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. they were introducedto the great Apostle of Africa, his Eminence blessedthem and told
. 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. they were introducedto the great Apostle of Africa, his Eminence blessedthem and told them that to see two of the race comingto him across the sea panoplied in the fulness ofAmerican citizenship, coming to help in the liberationthe dark continent would give him a new lease of was a day long to be remembered by the Americandelegates. There above the clear blue lake of Lucernesaaid the snow-crowned, cloudeapped mountains ofSwitzerland the Cardinal, Primate of Africa, imposedhishands upon the hf ads of your countrymen and said:I consecrate you to this work. May Almighty Godbless and protect you through His Divine Son. Great 92 tears of love and simpathy feel like gentle rain dropsupon those blessed by His eminence and they met awarm response. Thus by the decrees of an alwiseProvidence linking America and Europe in one supremeoffort to wipe slavery from the face of the the adress of the first Congress, primary and indu-strial schools were mentioned, temperance was urged,. SAM. B. HILL, OHIO. Trades Union were called upon to help in the workof lifting all our citizens alike to the platform of self-support. We come here to continue the work setforth in that adress and to take cogizance of the workof His Eminence Cardinal Lavigerie in abolishing theAfrican Slave trade. Is the Congress ready toproceed ?» 93 A committee on Credentials, composed of follow-ing members, was appointed: Willis J. SmithWashington; Rev. J. M. Mackey, Cincinnati; A. j!Befl, Lo
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