Arkansas State press., 1947-12-26

A STORY 81 YEARS Old Is SIILL NEW
EDITORS NOTE foong delivered 1891
anniversary
Archbishop Archbishop PAIL
Prelate
reprinted here during the Christmas Christian shep
reminder the rights and duties the Christian teach
ing to the sacred Of being regardless of
color national origin Happily applied that
teaching specifically to the Negro
today anniversary glorious its memories
behooves commemorate
January year of grace 1858 by
camaton of President Abraham Lincoln slavery
of the law of the land fell from the limbs millions
of brothers of citizens of America citizens
their brothers and their legal logically swiftly
the total and practical plotting out of very American soil
Slavery horrid We recall without and shame
Well the Head Catholic Church Kill recent
slavery opposed religion the dignity of
defenders taking e hadovy regions of the abb
act describe slavery labor towering whole life
time In the concrete as pracd and defended slavery was the own
made to be the ehae And how come it, could ask in the name of
justice
without his fault the the the
soul body Certain civilization said
slavery necessity they
should called Americans should ha lowered
o barbarism.
Slavery unchristaa. There scarcely
the Church from tie beginning than
human beings by its mis-
entirely destroyed The Christian religion
emphasized the brotherhood of man. the value of the soul charity to
the weak and the oppressed Slavery the denial of Christian
Christian denial the freedom
the Gospel which found the soul of the slave only the
permitted emancipation thank
for the blessings Christianity The Christian freedom
today poured out upon the nations of the earth The mighty social
which lifting the
people in all lands but another mani aor of the heavenly
spirit
Let us do our full duty have said that a
very America the trail f the serpent however
ground black brothers all the
rights privileges of anity They
unuiiatle osacr They
cd from
whom pollution looks had gudingly
granted them emancipation if fan still would be the mas
and hold servude.
do I the black man? That which claim the
men,
tegence Wrd Mchsters Hundred
world themselves the threshold of which millions
gnents
will complain if the barriers FACED thu
pathway of the black But let
color
Why barrier wher, find fer IT.
Not the result of climatic
The coors of the human skin of many different kinds
hadng the socaed white not easily numbered Why
exclusive pidn the black into its light
dcnbe the from the olive dark sad
ing most admired n the white family Of natons7
Men all of the from the ONT
father and the one mother Enoogy and holy writ give the sano
parent which the first model easily with the
testimony The subdivisions but accidental evaons
years they diverted The
special nerposon marked off the subdivisions the family
and set upon each ndbe seal Of permanenc the dream of
bgotry The obecons
intellectual parts the whites reply that
otter white
built by the latter against the former
tclccualy inferior whites
complain And radical norory the with
afford deny prsenc
in the short which have elapsed
made him Of his freedom and nerory which maj
attribute to his unfortunate conditions Of
America, his native Africa.
We arc victims prejudice
the shall into m,nhood
that because Of the social conditions
their fathers? so long the poude peoples Of Europe
immersed in babarism 1t honor that punish
the satisfaction of pride Why
the should him lberay
extraordinary to compensate him possible DONE
obterae mutual forebearance
by.
The problem Is solution TO IT,
peaceful and permanent than
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