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drunkard. It is not a dccxidence, as some have said; 

 it is a crisis, and the violence of it bears witness, not 

 only to the potency of the poison which consumes them, 

 but to the strength of vitality which is to save them. 

 If these races could perish, there would liave been an 

 end of them three centuries ago. Nay, the hour is 

 at hand ! '' Awake I awake Î Stand up, Jerusalem, 

 which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of 

 his fury! thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of 

 trembling, and wrung them out!"* .... "when thou 

 shalt have taken forth the precious from the vile, thou 

 shalt be as the mouth of Jehovah himsellV'f 



Frenclimen, Catholics, let us come to the rescue of 

 our Spanish- American brethren ! In their material 

 trials, let us help them with our gold ; in their moral 

 trials, with our heart and soul. 



And you, to whatever blood and Avhatever faith you 

 belong— all you who have come hither to this feast of 

 charity, my friends, my brethren, forget the things that 

 divide us, and think only of the things that unite us. 

 As we join hands for the relief of this great calamity, 

 let us labor to speed on the day of the Lord. blessed 

 day, when, in the vast and irresistil)le movement that is 

 bringing men together and mingling them in every part 

 of the world, all races shall flow together in one race, 

 and all religions shall be transtigured, and shall em- 

 brace each other in that religion which is free from all 

 error, rich in all truth — in Catholic Christianity. 

 "There sliall })e one flock and one shepherd,''^ — one 

 humanity in one Church, with one Christ, and under 

 one God ! 



• Isaiuh, li. 17. t Jeremiah, xv. V.l X Jolm, x. 9. 



