anges, which may not come without some jar
and conflict between progressive and conservative, but which
nevertheless needs must come. Out of many indications of the spirit of
fellowship with all Christians now exemplified among American Catholics,
I quote one of the most recent and authoritative from an address of
Archbishop Ryan at the Catholic Congress in Chicago in 1893. Speaking on
Christian union, he said:

"If there is any one thing more than another upon which people
agree, it is respect and reverence for the person and the
character of the Founder of Christianity. How the Protestant
loves his Saviour! How the Protestant eye will sometimes grow
dim when speaking of our Lord! In this great center of union
is found the hope of human society, the only means of
preserving Christian civilization, the only point upon which
Catholic and Protestant may meet. As if foreseeing that this
should be, Christ himself gave his example of fraternal
charity, not to the orthodox Jew, but to the heretical
Samaritan, showing that charity and love, while faith remains
intact, can never be true unless no distinction is made
between God's creatures."[325:1]

Herein is fellowship higher than that of symbols and sacraments. By so
far as it receives this spirit of love the American Catholic Church
enters into its place in that greater Catholic Church of which we all
make mention in the Apostles' Creed--"the Holy Universal Church, which
is the fellowship of holy souls."

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The effect of the Great Immigration on the body of the immigrant
population is not more interesting or more important than the effect of
it on the religious bodies already in occupation of the soil. The
impression made on them by what seemed an irruption of barbarians of
strange language or dialect, for the most part rude, unskilled, and
illiterate, shunning as profane the Christian churches of the land, and
bowing in unknown rites as devotees of a system known, and by no means
favorably known, only through polemic literature and history, and
through the gruesome traditions of Puritan and Presbyterian and
Huguenot, was an impression not far removed from horror; and this
impression was deepened as the enormous proportions of this invasion
disclosed themselves from year to year. The serious and not unreasonable
fear that these armies of aliens, handled as they manif