. The First American Catholic Missionary Congress. ople in the South are prepared to look into the claims ofthe Catholic Church and come to the old Mother Church. Whata blessed work it is to institute mission bands among religiousorders, for there they will surely be kept up! The spirit of thereligious order will feed them and make them grow strong. Let me mention one other fact. You know, they say thatstatistics lie—if there is somebody behind them (laughter)—butthis is a fact: I give the statistics of 1906, gathered for the Mis-sionary Congress of that year. I expect to gather the statistics
. The First American Catholic Missionary Congress. ople in the South are prepared to look into the claims ofthe Catholic Church and come to the old Mother Church. Whata blessed work it is to institute mission bands among religiousorders, for there they will surely be kept up! The spirit of thereligious order will feed them and make them grow strong. Let me mention one other fact. You know, they say thatstatistics lie—if there is somebody behind them (laughter)—butthis is a fact: I give the statistics of 1906, gathered for the Mis-sionary Congress of that year. I expect to gather the statistics forour next missionary congress. (You know we have had missionarycongresses before this one.) I know this is the first missionarycongress, but there have been three other missionary congresses,one at Winchester and two at Washington; or, rather, let memake a distinction: This is a missionary congress; the congresseswe have had are congresses of missionaries (laughter), mis-sionaries only, although they have been representative of all the 220. first American £atbolic lUisslonary Congress
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