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?eI.lt;iaerelt;t the world, and made His enemiesHis ’footstool. But should we by sin prove unfaithful to these sored Char-•so^iethlng of the assurance of the Rock of 'Ages. Wmcee?aL'eoVKs■a• *_#enactere—ob, what a doom awaits us doom more dreadful than tkat of thepoor heathen; for whilst h s 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 tss*aggra-vating our guilt, and calling for a deeper place iu these regions of woe,where, as our loving Saviour warns us :* The worm dieth not, and the five isnot-extinguished.” (Mark be. 4^ )*g:syArchbishop Ireland cn theColor Line.BY ALBERT WJIITMWXieieteyIS;hJ.fiei-irfir•eev •r,eiflioTe.vr* in this time of so much-souayrtalkaboaA the “race problem,” so much eloquent bluster, loud cowardioe, aeaning lossr rant and so ruany impossible.propositions, it is truly refresh mg and encouraging to listen to the brave and olt;L-like words of Bishop Ireland, of iimesota. This good man rises up and -with great *olid strides goee-^tnaight forward to the difficulty. There is amuscular energy in his boldness that remuads one of Simon dieter. Wath a courage that borders on the oelestla?, he looks race-hate, the hyena .©f the humanbreast,, so out of countenance that theugly wrong slinks £rom his .presenae I herewith subjoin a paragraph of this Bkhop’s words as they appealed and were editorially noticed dy ,the Kansas City Globe, one of the leading dailies the great WestsB2l HOI* IRELAND DEXOU.NCEDThe Roman Catholic bishop of Minnesota recently preachtd a sermon to theColored Catholics of Washington City, in which die uttered the following:“No church is a tit temple of God where a man, because of his color, is excluded or made to oceupy a corner.•Let the alarmist who would raise a cry for a hegira to Africa, hence forward hold his peace. The Negro will yet find rbot the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is-sufficient to make-even the Southernlaw ot nature | portion of the United States of Americait, we -fihould |=t for a human te«dwell in. The fireesters 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-.-gether for the purposes of slavery and trie degrading alliances and issues which followed, then may they not dwell 10-*.gether for liberty-and the holy consummations of equal rights ?1 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 ef existence where .a man is excluded or driven to a corner because of his color.;*'Whereon the New* Orleans-Times Democrat comments as follows :We say in the name of the people of the e-outh that these social equality sentiments are viewed with abhorrence by the vast majority otf white southerners. In this section we hold—and we say it with thorough respect for eminent ecclesiastic—that *. distinct line of color has been fixed 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 andwtlbbovvtlc«aSiaetieAaotivtiaelt;FgnoanrSSsociety,3.If1.Keligion teaches us that weeauoot be-bland us in ageneral Hayti like debauch-edebtiea€e1e33pleasing to God unless we look upon allmankind as the children of the Father in heaven, And they who order and compel a mac, because he is Colored to betake himself,to a corner marked for hie race practically contradict the principles of justice-and equal rights established by the Gad of mercy who lives on thealthr. This prejudice and exclusion in the church is a. scandal and a shame. Let,Christians aet out their religion ami then there is no more race prejudice. The.cclor line must go, and soon, too. The line will be drawn at personal merit.The shame and scandal of putting■Colored people in .corners and lofts inCatholic’ churches itiust be wiped out. The doors of all Catholic institutionsesf19must be opened to Colored Catholics.”Tor this bishop Ireland is being generally denounced by Die press of the South as a pulpit firebrand and a fanatic that should be suppressed, John Ireland received his preliminary education inthe public .schools of St. Paul, Minn,and though a bishop of the Catholic chut eh he is an American in the broadest highest and most practical sense. Whenthe war of the rebellion broke out John Ireland then a young priest was among the first to respond to his country’s callfor 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 whole country.He knows no north, no south, no east, no west. U bile lie believes in his own religion he makes no war on 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 and the opportunity that its institutions afford for developing the best elements of humannature. There is nothing narrow or mean in the great bishop’s nature. I)e- ored race, voted as he is to the interests of his church and counted a3 lie is amongsther most zealous and able defenders, lie asks no rights nor privilege s that he Is not 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 woukl it be fur tliis country if it had a thousand bishop Irelands where it has but one,—Kansas-cry and barbarism.How tame«md feebla is oLU protest from so great and exponent of -southern feeling and sentiment. Cannot .any onesee that the spirit of opposition to the great awakening oi truth and justice is we».kening? CLa;:iiot any one see thatthere are forces feeing brought into .play that are simply irresistible? The HomanCatholic church is a power on ea -t i, carrying with her potentates and rulers.Her archbishops «r£ heard when iji^y speak. The Times-Democrat well knows this and hence the old tactics of bludgeon and bulldozer are avoided. The protest is respectful, even to feebleness; aud why? The answer Is that the Roman Catholic churct has Louisiana in her grqp.Her 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 Catholia church all over the world. Hence it is with“thorough respact for eminent ecclesiastics,” that the Times-Demoerat gays: “A distinct, color line 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 is as futile as it is foolish.— Christian Recorder. Africati Methodist )BALTIMORE.St Francis Xavier’s church feast ofthe Sacred Heart June 1.5th., grandHigh Mass at 5 a m. solemnGreenCity 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 so on the behalf of humanity. It is utterly ustless for tiie 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 on earth who “acts out his religion.” lie will have the support of all the humanitarians outside of the churches, and lie will he mantled with a covering of power by “that God of mercy who livesin the altar.” It is of no use for the South to work 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 lier ranks. How weak! how futile!Oh, vain! oil, blind! Oh, miserable hypocrites to not know that in thlg greatage great men of God are rising up. A great war and a baptism of blood and fire 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 filled her heaps of slain. He saw bereavement haggard with her weeping wander 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 fit 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, whose 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 splendfd couragevesners at 8 i*. m,, a sermon was preached by Kjv.Father lit-Herman.Sunday June 8th at St. Peter Claver’s Church was witnessed a ceremony not soon to be forgotten—the formal departure of Rev. M. J. ilefferman, St. Josph’s Seminary’s first missionary to the Gol-The ceremony-began with solemn vespers,Rev. M. J. Ilefferman,celebrant assisted by Rev. T. O. Farrell and lt;J. R. Woods as deacon and subdeaeon. In the sanctuary were Revs J. K. Slattery, rector and F. A. Schmitz, both of St. Joseph’s Seminary, Rev. D. Manly, rector of Epiphany ApostolicCollege. Rev. L A. VVelbers, pastor ofSt. Peter’s College and Rev J. of St Francis Xavier’s. Vespers waschanted by the students of Epiphany Apostolic College, directed by Mr.Toomey. Jmmediadely after vespers Rev. 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 Negro missions 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 ba9 her own seminary, and hence missionaries will go forth to convert the black millions of the South. The field is immense. No doubt the census now being taken will siiow eight or nine millions of blacks living beyond the 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 Coloredpeople. 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, windows 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 post-, masters room. Collector Marine has appointed L. H. Brown, of CalvertCounty 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 llatness 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 night-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 spacecili81Uiolcl1COlth1)2sterofn(tu“1UI¥ofsu6Ufahelilt;g!mPlAiarAifoitoSISW1buAiuntufloellt;seisosutil80lt;fl*iVllt;iniofresoxrelt;toibui mthlt;tinstrdeitiltrcrtheflolt;wilt;cuiap]tarthecult;spe ovlt; a famflu1fnolofthecormsgriirisshide:molt;whtoofoftarbainwebutorexioflikfielt;astrelt;prlt;thipolt;ricthlt;metioweofweceslaranthlt;in801thimi
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American Catholic Tribune
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Sat, Jun 21, 1890
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