. The life and times of John Carroll, Archbishop of Baltimore, 1735-1815 . BALTIMORE CATHEDRAL. Last Years 825 Numbers mean little when such an increase is to be measured inthe balance of its power for good and for the welfare ofhumanity; but even the changed statistics of his Report of 1785,with its twenty-four priests and its twenty-five thousand Cath-olics, to a hierarchy of six dioceses with over twice the numberof priests, and nearly four times the number of Catholics, musthave cheered him amid all the turmoils of war and the difficultiesgratuitously brought to the American Church by alie
. The life and times of John Carroll, Archbishop of Baltimore, 1735-1815 . BALTIMORE CATHEDRAL. Last Years 825 Numbers mean little when such an increase is to be measured inthe balance of its power for good and for the welfare ofhumanity; but even the changed statistics of his Report of 1785,with its twenty-four priests and its twenty-five thousand Cath-olics, to a hierarchy of six dioceses with over twice the numberof priests, and nearly four times the number of Catholics, musthave cheered him amid all the turmoils of war and the difficultiesgratuitously brought to the American Church by aliens, as hefaced the setting sun of his life. I am the only sluggard and dono good amidst this wonderful growth of the Faith, he wroteto Plowden in the beginning of the year which was to be his the summer, while the country was recovering fromthe sharp effects of the war, it was seen that his days wererapidly growing few. His last public act was to decline the gracious invitation sentto him by the Committee-in-charge to pronounce the chief dis-course at the laying of the cornerst
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