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Catholic Missionaries to the COiored
People.
From the st. Louis Democrat

From the ST. Louis Democrat
NEW YORK, March ga sermon was de-
liyered in St. Stephens (Roman Cathoilc)
Church, yesterday, by Rev. DR.. Herbert
Vaughan. who has received from the Pope
the mission of converting the negroes VI
the Southern States to Cathohclsin.
Vaughan is the superior of the st. Joseph
Anostolic Society, and arrived IN this
country last December with number OF
Catholic missionaries for the colored people.
They have come to this country bo"hd ny
vows to devote themselves entirely 10 TIE
cOlOred race.
He took as his text the words, LAS the
father sent, also send you He proceeded
to show that there is something especially
:liv;ne in the charity which seeks out dis
t.nt races and lands in order to evaGgelize
them, This has been the charity which has
animated the Catholic Church from the be-
ginning. 1t is the charity which the Son Of
God brought down from heaven when He
came into this lower world. He practiced
it from the cradle, and taught ii from the
summit Of Mount Oivet before he assembled
into heaven. A continuation of this char
ity winch promps US to devote ourselves or
our substance to teaching and saving the
most needy, is to be seen in the work which
the reverend preacher invited his hearers
to take a past in. That work is an associa-
ton composed not only of clergymen, but
also Of sisters, of laymen. and women who
unite together in the determination to re-
claim the masses who are perishing. and to
preach the gospel to the foreign race who
are dependent upon them for the truths Of
Christianity.
st. Joseph's Society has not long been
founded. The first missionaries whom it
had educated have been sent BIZ the Sow
ereign PonliE to the colored people OF the
United States AS the society has received
this mission, it may well look to the char
liable and jealous Catholics of this country
to assist by every means in their power 1t
is society for gathering into itself and ap-
plying the charity which must be widely
entertained among the Catholics OF Amer
lea to the millions of Africans who have
been cast helpless upon society, and who
need education and religious care
The preacher appealed to the generosity
and nobility of the American youth to
come and enroll themselves under the apos
tOlic banner which Christ entrusted to his
apostles. No life could be more nobly
spent, none would deserve a brighter
crate to the salvation Of the poor colored
people. He asked Of the generous men
and women who are free from ties to come
forward and give themselves to the work.
and he begged of all to contribute literally
toward the education of missionaries, and
toward providing all those things which
are necessary for carrying on the
mission successfully. Many come from
Europe and give themselves to it, but
Americans are doubly bound to give every
help they can, and to make even great sac
ritices for the sake of the millions who are
their fellow subjects and an internal part
of their population
Quite a handsome collection was taken
during the mass in aid of DR.. Vaughan's
mission. All the collections at the masses
yesterday were donated to the same pur-
pose.