. 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. d peo-ple, and therefore, anxious not to forestall in any waythe time marked by God f
. 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. d peo-ple, and therefore, anxious not to forestall in any waythe time marked by God for bringing about this greatwork, we feel confident that this solemn expression ofour convictions, of our hopes and of our resolutions,will have at least the advantage of proving that we—the Catholic representatives of our people—have ear-nestly contributed our humble share to the great workfor whose final accomplishment all our brothersare ardently yearning. The education of a people being the great andfundamental means of elevating it to the higher planes 69 to which all Christian civilization tends, we pledgeourselves to aid in establishing, wherever we are to befound, Catholic schools, embracing the primary andhigher branches of knowledge, as in teem andthrough them alone can we expect to reach the largemasses of Colored children now giowing up m thiscountry without a semblance of Chistian of the importance and necessity or lit-erary societies as a meats of completing our young. DAN. A. KUDD OHIO. mens training and atainments, we declare that thisCongress encourage all such societies as an abund*ant and fruitful source of social and intellectual im-provement. As manliness and sobriety go hand in hand,we strenuously exhort all our f ellOw citizens to prac-tice the self-sacrificing virtue of temperance, either in-dividully or in the societies already existing in con*nection with the Church. 70 We to all labor organizations, tradeunions, etc., to adm
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