. The First American Catholic Missionary Congress. first American £atbolic lUisslonary Congress. missionary energies of the country. I was about to quote somestatistics, showing that during the year 1906 there were 25,056converts received into the Catholic Church in the United States.(Applause.) Now, you can well see what hope and promisethere is in this work, how when we get every diocese in theUnited States equipped with missionaries, when we get out, notthirty, but three hundred, a thousand, missionaries, when weget every parish priest in the country with a large missionaryside to his work,
. The First American Catholic Missionary Congress. first American £atbolic lUisslonary Congress. missionary energies of the country. I was about to quote somestatistics, showing that during the year 1906 there were 25,056converts received into the Catholic Church in the United States.(Applause.) Now, you can well see what hope and promisethere is in this work, how when we get every diocese in theUnited States equipped with missionaries, when we get out, notthirty, but three hundred, a thousand, missionaries, when weget every parish priest in the country with a large missionaryside to his work, you may well see how the missionary activitiesof the Church will be aroused, and what wonderful conquestsshe will make in this blessed land of America. Let us appreciate the fact that, after all, the primary vocationof the Catholic Church is a missionary vocation. Did you everthink of that, that the only commission that was given to theApostles was a missionary commission, that the only commissionour Lord gave them was to go into the whole world and preachthe Gospel to every creature; and t
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