. 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. made good use of theirliberty in promoting the cause of God and, the wel-fare of man;
. 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. made good use of theirliberty in promoting the cause of God and, the wel-fare of man; if the names of Nero, Diceletian and-Robespierre are despised, it is because they madeTsse of their liberty to crush the liberty of t-heir fel-low men. We will be judged and our names honoredroi despised according as we make use of the liberty•we possess. How then are we to use this preciouso-ift, this inestimable blessing? We should use it inendeavoring to suppress vice, by avoiding sin, immorality, and by encouragingvirtue and morality; as free men and not make libertythe cloak of malice. Whosoever committeth sin, be-comes the slave of sin. What a degradation to fallfrom the high place of children of God to that of thedemons of darkness. Look at Solomon, the great king of Israel, thelight of Judea, a man whose commanding wisdomand intelligence have become proverbs; look at long as his heart was pure and he exercisediiis free will aright, he was the glory of his 8 When he surrendered his will to his passions, he,who, like the oak, had defied the storms and ruledJudea with so much wisdom and justice, becameso besotted by misuse of his liberty that he builttemples to false Gods and worshiped them. No man loves civil liberty more thau I do. IfI have one passion stronger than another, it is lovefor our institutions; but do we not sometimes over-estimate our liberty? What will it profit us toexercise the right of the elective franchise, to bee
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