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T*»■qucTed the world, and made His enemies His ’feotstool. But should we by sin prove unfaithful to these sacred Characters—oh, what a doom awaits us’! a doom more dreadful than that of thepoor heathen; for whilst h i would bear with him into hell the sins be woukl beguilty of against the according as he knew bring with us the brand of renegades inthe Character of the Sacra men ts^ggra-vating our guilt, and calling for a deeper place in these regions of woe,where, as our loving Saviour warns us :* The worm dieth not, and the tire isnoti2xtinguished.” (Mark i-x.4^ )r, *v x • - ■, • ^ ~ • * » -something of the assurance of the Rock of Ages.iArchbishop Ireland tsn theColor Liiae.BY ALBERT WMITMA'XtS1rfrr* *In this time of so much-soratyr talk abo»:t the “race problem,’1 so much eloquent bluster, loud cowardice, eeaning lessr rant and so ruany impossible propositions, it is truly refresh mg and encouraging to listen to the brave and olt;Llike words of Bishop Ireland, of ianesota. This good man rises up and w/Ith great *olid strides goee-^tnaight forward to the difficulty. There is a museiilar energy in hie boldness that reminds one of Simon dieter. With a courage that borders on the .celestial, he looks race-hate, the hyena of the human breast,, so out of countenance that theugly wrong slinks from his .presenae 1 herewith subjoin a paragraph of this.Bishop’s words as they appealed and were editorially noticed by the Kansas City Globe, one of the leading dailies the great Westililt'HOI* IRKLAXD IK'OUJiCEDThe Roman Catholic bishop of Minnesota recently preachtd a sermon to the Colored CVitholies of Washington City, in whiche uttered the following:“No church is a tit temple of God where a man, because of his .color, isexcluded or made to occupy a corner.•Let the alarmist who would raise a cry for a hegira to Africa, hence forward hold Ills peace. The Negro will yet And that the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is sufficient to makeoven the Southern law ot nature | portion of the United States of Americait, we 'OhouId |=t for a human tc«dwell in. The tireesters of that section may frighten some worthy Colored people into the conclusion that the “two races can never dwrell together; but thanks be to good-f ness, some of us are getting over ourscare If the two paces could dwell to-.getlier for the pur^soses of slavery and trie degrading alliances and issues which followed, then may they not dwell together for liberty-and the holy consummations of equal rights ?i subjoin one -paragraph more from ^Archbishop Ireland s sermon and with it, the insipid notice of a vapid old Southern sheet, the'■New Orleans TimesDemocrat:“A man shows a narrowness of mind and acts unworthy of his humanity by refusing any privilege to his fellow tnan•because he is Colored. Every prejudice entertained, every breach of justice and charity against a fellow citizen becauseof color, is a stain fiung on the banner of liberty that floats over us. No hall, no parlor, is worthy of existence where .a man is excluded or driven to a corner because of his color..1''Whereon the New Orleans-Times Democrat comments as follows :We say in the name of the people of the xouth that these social equality sentiments are viewed with abhorrence by the vast majority-01 white southerners. In this section we hold—and we say it with thorough respect for eminent ecclesiastic—that a distinct line ofcolor has been tixed by nature herselfto divide the two races whieh mainly constitute the population,; and that, in attempting to do a way with that color line, thoce who preach the equalitytheory are opening the way to a race demoralization which will confounddestroy white civilization andsociety,.Religion teaches us that weeauoot beu*laad us in ageneral Hayti like debauch-pleasing toGod unless we look upon allmaukind as the children of the Father in heaven, And they who ordekr and compel a mac, because he is Colored to betake himself,to a corner marked forhie race practically contradict the principles of justice.and equal rights established by theGcd of mercy who lives onthe Altar. This prejudice and exclusionin the church is a. scandal and a shame. Let,Christians aet out their religion and then there is no more race prejudice. The.cclor line must go, and soon, too. The Rue will he drawn at personal merit.;The shame aial scandal of putting ■Colored people in corners and lofts inCatholic’ churches uaust be wiped out. The doors of all Catholic institutionsmust be opened to Colored Catholics.” i or this Bishop Ireland is being generally denounce*I by the press of the South as a pulpit firebrand and a fanatic that should be suppressed. John Irelandreceived his preliminary education in the public schools of St. Paul, Minn, and though a bishop of the Catholic chuichhe is an American in the broadesthighest and most practical sense. Whenthe war of the rebellion broke out John Ireland then a young priest was among the lirst to respond to his country’s call for men and marched with the famous Minnesota Eighteenth regiment to thefront, with which he remained as chaplain until the close of the war. Bishop Ireland is a patriot as well as a priest.His great heart goes out to the wholecoifntr}'.He knows no north, no south, no east, no west. While he believes in his own religion he makes no war or other religions. He Is really more a humanitarian,than a priest. Among the great temperance reformers of the day the name of John Ireland stands among the very first. He loves his country for the freedom that it guarantees to all its citizens to worship Gbd according to the dictates of their own conscience und the opportunity that its institutions afford for developing the best elements of human nature. There is nothing narrow or mean in the great bishop’s nature. Devoted as he is to the interests of his church and counted a3 he«ory and barbarism.How tame*md feeble is ehi.5 protest from so great and exponent of •southern feeling and sentiment. Cannot .any onesea that the spirit of opposition to the great awakening ot truth and justice is wec.kening? Ca;:not any one see that there are forces fcoing brought into .play that are simply irresistible? The RomanCatholic church is a power on ea-t i, carrying with her potentates and rulers.Her archbishops ho; heard when th^yspeak. The Timcs-Deinocrat well knows This and hence the old tact ics of bludgeon and bulldozer are avoided. The protest is respectful, even to feeble-nes* ; aud why ? The answ'er is that the Roman Catholic church has Louisiana in her grqp.iler ramifications are s extensive as the habitations of man. and Bishop Ireland has had the courage to preach the gospel as it shall be understood and applied by the Roman Catholic* church ail over the world. Hence it is with“thorough respact for eminent ecclesiastics,” that ihe Times-Demoerat says: *‘A distiiui.t color Hue has been fixed by nature.”One hundred years from to-day the South will be such a small corner in the estimates of the woild, that she will be totally unable to create even sentiment. The day of universal manhood is dawning and all opposition thereto isas futile as it is foolish.— Christian lie-carrier. Africati Methodist )BALTIMORE.St Francis Xavier’s church least ofthe Sacred Heart June 1.5th., grandHigh Mass at 5 a m. solemnis amongsther most zealous and able defenders, he asks no rights nor privileges that he Isnot willing to grant to his opponent*.in attacking Bishop Ireland the southern press has assailed a rock which their arrows of vituperation and abuse cannot pierce. Happy would it be fur this country if it had a thousand bishopIrelands where it has but on*-,—KansasGreenCity GiobGood! good! good !! Bishop Ireland! Good for you and good for you, Kansas City Globe, in this great busy unheeding world in wnieh the oppressed can 'O seldom have a hearing, it is signallygood for a Roman Catholic Bishop and a g eat daily newspaper to join their strength and voice the sentiments of God su on the behalf of humanity. It is utterly ustless for the Southern press to get rabid and froth at the mouth. The God of heaven is heard from on the lips of this great Bishop. This is the man of God— the Elijah of this age. He will have the moral and practical support of the Homan Catholic world, lie will have the support of every Protestant onearth who “acts out his religion.” lie will have the support of all the humanitarians outside of the churches, and he will be mantled with a covering of power by “that God of mercy who livesin the altar.” It is of no use for the South to wrork itself into a frenzy. The lunacy of race hate must jdeld to the orderly strength of human rights. The man of God speaks and with him are the heavenly hosts.In the Diocese of South Carolina the Fpiscopal church by a recent vote of 53 to 14, has excluded Colored clergymen from her ranks. How weak! how futile!Oh, vain! oh, blind! Oh, miserable hypocrites to not know that in thlg greatage great men of God are rising up. A great w'ar and a baptism of blood and tire must bring out of our humanity the good and the great of the human. Here is a man of battles; he saw when red havoc tilled her heaps of slain. He saw bereavement haggard with her weeping w ander forth when famine howled amid her wasted homes and in ghastly scenes of trench and hospital, he saw that “all men are the children of the Father in heaven.” And now, that the war is over, out of the ehao3 above the triumphant confusion of great armies, he voices the canon shot.“The color-line must go.” “No church is a tit tempie of God where a man, because of his color, is excluded or made to occupy a corner.” The artillery of heaven has opened. Shade of Richard Allen be with us in the fight. When allthe T. DeWitt Talmages and South Carolina episcopalians and the like, who are a disgrace to our humanily and a shame upon the holy religion which they profess, wrhose lives “practically contradict the principles of justice and equal rights established by the God of Mercy, who lives on the Altar,” when all these shall be regarded as the jests and buffoons of the priestly office, a mendicant lot of ragged Simon Magusaes, the vagrant lepers of the ages, shunned and abhorred by the very populace towards which they would stretch out their hands to heal. When all of these— the preachers of race-hate are but theexecration of the world, then BishopIreland, of Minnesota, and those who are like him covered by the protecting aegis of God’s Holy Word, shall shinein triumph like the stars of heaven. Onecan feel in this man’s splendid couragevespers atS i*. m., a sermon was preached by R »v.Father Heifer man.Sunday June 8th at St. Peter Claver's Church wfas witnessed a ceremony not soon to be forgotten—the formal departure of Rev. M. J- He Herman, St. Jospl/s Seminary’s flrst missionary to the Col-! ored race. The ceremony-began withsolemn vespers,Rev. M, J. Helferman,celebrant assisted by Rev. T. O. Farrell and C. R. Woods as deacon and sub-deaeon. In the sanctuary were Revs J. R. Slattery, rector and F. A. Schmitz, both of St. Joseph s Seminary, Bev. D.Manly, rector of Epiphany Apostolic College. Rev. L. A. VVelbers, pastor of St. Peter’s College and Rev J. ot St Francis Xavier’s. Vespers waschanted by the students of EpiphanyApostolic College, directed by Mr.Toomey. Jmmediadely after vespersRev. J. R. Slattery addressed the congregation a3 follows: “The ceremony of to-day is unique in the American Church. The rest of us on the Negromissions came from England. It is no credit to the American Church that an Englishman started the Negro Missions. All honor however to him tor it. At last America has her own seminary, and hence missionaries will go forth to convert the black millions of the South. The lield is immense. No doubt the census now being taken will show eight or nine millions of blacks living beyondthe Potomac, of these less than half are baptized, of whom but a handful are Catholics. During the past week 1 have driven around the suburbs of Noifolk very thoroughly. It is the beginning of what is known as the black belt. Nothing gratified me more than to see theindustry, sobriety and care which were evident around the huts of the Colored people. Their steady improvement even in buildings was pointed out, on a small patch of ground from one or seven acres a Negro family would build a hut, generally without windows and chimney and with one door. A few yards distant would spring up the more pretentious buildings, with clean tidy weather-boarding, window's with glass, and some ornamentation. Every few miles could be seen the school houseand the church.” After the sermon aprocession of the Blessed Sacrament took place. The new missionary is a promising young man of twenty-five years, a native of Philadelphia. St. Joseph’s Seminary has sent forth her first missionary, and by no means her last.Postmaster Johnson has ordered the photographs of all the ex-postmasters of Baltimore to be hung in the postmasters room. Collector Marine has appointed L. H. Browrn, of Calvert County a scale hand at the custom house A church on Orchard street has opened a trade school for Colored youths it will hate shoemakers, blacksmith shops and a sewing class for girls.Baltimore’s attractions in summer— Baltimoreans have good reasons to congratulate themselves on living in a city which is surpassed by none of its size in the country m the variety of its resources for mitigating the discomfortsof the heated term. Its numerous hills are sometimes a matter of reproach on the part of the thoughtless stranger, but this very diversity of surface is the cause of drafts and breezes which are in grateful contrast with the unruffled persistent, intolerable heat which broods over the sun leaked flatness of Philadelphia, for example during the dog days. There are comparatively few sections of our city in which there is not a current of air after nigbt-fall, and the sweltering heat which is the rule for weeks in less favored cities, seldom abides with us for more than a lew days at a time. The many beautiful squares and parks and the spacious avenues like Broadway, Mount Royal, North, Fulton and others, affords ample breathing space«tt
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American Catholic Tribune
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Sat, Jun 21, 1890
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