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Show TWO AMERICANS ABROAD. The years 1900 and 1901 will witness the appearance of two most distin guished Americana before the people of the -old world. It so happens that both are Catholics, and exalted churchmen at that, while at the same time thev have ever been known to embody, each in himself, the very best type of American citizenship. His Eminence, the Cardinal Archbishop Arch-bishop of Baltimore, will deliver the sermon at the opening of the new Catholic Cath-olic Cathedral of Westminster sometime some-time during the next year the date having recently been postponed for some months. To this occasion not , only the Catholic wor".d, but all the people of England are looking forward with pleasurable expectation. That all """"" who hear the American Cardinal will be pleased goes without saying while it is certain they will be vers much surprised also, for, after hearing him, they will find that not a jot or tittle of Catholic doctrine has been minimized, but affirmed in the very essence. They w ill look in vain in his discourse for the so-called "Americanism." of which old world Catholics have heard so much. ' From the new world the Catholics of the old win receive a menage of strong. -;rile, uncompromising Catholicism that will do them good. It can safely be presumed, too, that the American Cardinal Car-dinal will not let the occasion pass without a striking picture of American institutions which will do much to enlighten en-lighten a people all too ignorant of conditions con-ditions prevailing in America. The other American who will attract world-wide attention is the Archbishop of St. Paul, who will speak at Pari6 on the Fourth of July. We have no doubt but that the discourse will he one of the best that Archbishop Ireland has ever . prepared. He will undoubtedly sieze the occasion to emirate and affirm what "Americanism," so-called, is in its political sense, and, as a conse-J- quence, will give the people of France j and 'all Europe thought which, when digested, will be very beneficial for r them. We might mention, also, that 1 j another distinguished American. I ! Churchman sailed for Europe last Sun- I ! cay, viz: Archbishop Corrigan, who, in I company with Hume prominent New J York Catholics, will visit Rome and other foreign places. I - The Archbishop of New York will I not, as far as we know, make any pub- I lie address, but his character will at- I tract much attention. j |