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Gibbons of Baltimore! + cannot give:
to my words tho warmth Of my heart; !
shall give ia them its sincerity. have l
spoken Of the providential Pope Of home;
I speak.of the providential Arch bishop Of
Baltimore. How Oft il past years have
thanked God that in this latter quarter
Of the nineteenth century, Cardinal Glib
bons was given to US as our primate and
our leader! Catholic Of Catholics, .Amerl-
can Of Americans, q bishop OF his age
and Of his country, he has been to Amer
lea what Leo has been to all Christen-
dom. Aye, far beyond America does his
influence go; mon are not confined by
frontier lines, and Gibbons is European,
as Manning is American. A particular
mission is reserved to the American car
dinal. The Church and the age fight
their battles with 1pecial intensity in
America: America is watched. the pre-
late who is the representative Of union is
.Yatched, his leadership guides conba-
tants the world over. His name lights
up the page of nearly every European
book which deals in modern, social and
political questions. The ripplings OF
Cardinal Gibbons influence cross the
threshold of the Vatican. Leo, the
mighty inspirer of men, is: inspired and
encouraged by his faithful iieutenants
from whom he essten asks, "Watchman,
what of the night 4?
The historic incident Of the knights OF
Labor, whose condemnation Cardinal
Gibbons averted by personal interview
with Leo, was one OF the preparations to
the encyellcal on the CONDITION of La
bor." But Cardinal Gibbons is an Ameri-
can; let him be judged in America.
The work of Cardinal G!bbo >s forms
an epoch in the history of the Church in
America. He has put, as no one before
did, the Church before the people OF
America; hehas demonstrated the fitness
OF the Church for America, the natural
alliance existing between her aud the
freedom giving democratic institutions OF
America Through his action the scales
have fallen from the eyes of NON Catho-
lies; prejudices have vanished. Hes the
great churchman, is the great Citizen;
Church aud country unite IN him, aud
tbs magnetism Of the union pervades the
whole land. teaching laggard Catholics
to love America; teaching we'll disposed
but mis- uided n-Catholics to trust the
Church. How noble the mission assigned
10 him by heaven! How we'll it has been
followed out! Church and country in
America tho Church aud the age-mod-
ern aspirations and ancient truths-dem
ocracy with it's republican liberties and
tho spiritual princedom OF the Catholic
Church harmonized. cast into bonds Of
warm unity, laboring together for each
others progress, FOR the progress OF hui
manity upon earth and in heaven! God
of time and OF eternity, God Of Church
and OF. country. we praise Thee, We thank
Thee; unceasng be to us this flow Of Thy
bounty,
I;need not tell the qualities of mind
and heart which have brought the reward
of success to the labore of Cardinal Cab
IL In ia
large minded; his vision cannot be mar
rowed to a one-sidsd consideration of
men or things. He is large hearted; his
sympathies are limited by the frontiers
Of humanity; careless Of self, he gives
his best activities TO the good of others.
He is ready for every good work, patri-
o,ic, intellectual, social, philantropic, as
we'll as religious, and in the prosecution
Of it he joins hand with the laborer and
the capitalist, with the Write man and
the black man, with the Catholic, the
Protestant, and She Jew. He is brave;
he has the courage to speak and to act
according to his convictions; he reloices
when men work with him; be works,
when men fall away from him. Bravery
is as needful in labors of peace as in
those of war.
Cardinal Gibbons, the most outspoken
of Catholics, the most loyal co-laborer OF
the Pope of Rome, is the American OF
Americans I desire to accentuate his
American patriotism for it has been a
wondrous factor in his victories. We
have heard it said that frequent dsclara-
tions OF patriotism are unseeming il loyal
citizens, whose silent lives give sufficient
evidence of that civic virtue. Let it be
said, then, that frequent declarations of
religious faith are not in place among
devoted Christians, that the '.'credo"
must be seldom repeated.
have spoken my tribute to the cardi
nal archbishop OF Baltimore; wide field
remains untouched, from which other
men may gather other tributes.
Ny whole observation OF the times,
and, in particular, Of this memorable Co.
year, convinces re that the