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Show -t AN ARCHBISHOP'S .SYMPATHY. His Letter to the Protestant Pastor Excite- Admiration. Ad-miration. The letter of the Archbisop of Xow York t , the Rev. Mr. Hass, the Lutheran minisier v.re-." congregation was nearly wiped out by the appalling appall-ing river disaster in New York, is as folios-: The Rev. Mr. Hass: " Rev. and Dear Sir I beg to tender ro-.i and your afflicted people my most sincere sympathy in i N the presence of the appalling calamity that inn I ' P fallen upon them and you through the bunting of the General Sloeum. and I know my feelings ar 1 fully shared by the whole body of the Catholic cln- j gy and laity of New York. May th" giver of all 1 strength comfort you and yours in this, their . dreadful hour of sorrow. Believe me. my d -ar -ir, Yen- rcspectfullv vours, JOHN M. FARLEY. Archbishop of New York. Of this letter, the Rev. T. B. Gregory sa;. s -'a the Chicago Examiner: There is a great deal more in the Arohbi.-iii - letter to thc-Rev. Mir. Hass than appears upon th surface. t It is vastly more than a letter of sympathy from one individual to another. It is much more than a letter of sympathy f'-"n one body of Christians to another. It is a letter of sympathy from a high oMii ir.I in the Catholic Church to a minister of the Lutheran Luth-eran Church. Now to know what those words. ''Catholic" and "Lutheran." once stood for is to catch the ;';ii!. splendid, inspiring significance of the Arehhisli-i; letter to Mr. Hass. ? Once, and not so Y.ery long ago. either, when measured by the history of the race on this earth, those words stood for the enmity thai was as litter lit-ter as death. They stood for war war to the knifj. c.vA kn!:? to the hilt. But lo! a change has come over the spirit et our dream, and the old time hate bceor.-.es Inc. A Lutheran clergyman stands in the shadow "' a great bereavement, and the Catholic Archbishop makes haste to write him his "most sincere sympathy." sym-pathy." I do well to call it beautiful. It is more tiv-e that; jt is divine and godlike! 1 |