Identifier: literarydigest60newy (find matches)
Title: The literary digest
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York : Funk & Wagnalls (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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his surmise be correct, it is thought that Alsace-Lorrainewill not be seriously molested in its religious rights. Should itprove incorrcict, the Government will face tlie alternatives ofaccording religious liberty to one corner of France, namely,Alsace-Lorraine, while denying it to the rest of the country, orof bringing Alsace-Lorraine into line with France by launchingreligious persecution there as elsewhere. Tlie latter alternativeis so inconsistent with Frances professions of championing theliberty of the world that it would api)ear almost beyond therange of possibility. The Irish Catholic (New York) is not very optimistic overthe situation, and, as is the case with many others fitted to forma careful judgment, finds matter for apprehension in the curtreply made by Mr. Pichon, the French Foreign Minister, tothe question put him by Mr. Carnudet, the Catholic deputy, asto the advantages of resuming diplomatic relations betweenFrance and the Vatican. Mr. Pichon, it will be remembered,
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RED-CROSS GREETINGS Pennsylvania colored troops and casuals on the transport Louisvilleranee. A frequently repeated scene in New York Harbor so worthily represented by your Eminence, their sentiments ofadmiration, gratitude, and brotherly affection. We should beungrateful if we could foi-get the sacrifices which you had tomake to pay the price of our ransom and deliverance. Yourranks have been thinned, your parishes desolated, your parochialworks paralyzed. Thousands from among you have given up theirlives for the great cause, and now they sleep the sleep of heroes.How noble yoiu* clergy has been, by its sacrifice, during thosefour terrible jears! From the confused and contradictory echoeswhich the enemys newspapers were bringing us, we could indeedguess the immense and fruitful work done by your priests in thetrenches, at the front, at the relief stations, in the hospitals, andin tho parishes. But now that we have thejn in our midst andcan see the fruit of Wwir apostolic zeal among t

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