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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
ance in the face of what must have seemed at first
hopeless difficulties. You are truly to be congratu
lated. I am instructed by our Association to convey
these expressions to you with the request that you
in turn convey them to your Georgia fellow workers
through the columns of your Bulletin. Our Associa
tion was inspired by and is modeled after yours, so
you see the effect of your work is by no means con
fined to the limits of your State. (Signed) Frank C.
O’Malley, Secretary..
Atlanta, Ga.I am so very, very busy and have been
for some time until I have not found time to reply to
yours. However, I shall do so at the earliest oppor
tune time. I am enjoying the literature you have
sent me. I am a member of the Methodist Church,
and have asked for the literature to set myself right
in the matter. I was all along of the opinion that
the propaganda spread against you was “tommy rot.”
Atlanta, Ga., May 6. Please accept my thanks for
literature sent me recently; also allow me to say that
quite a lot of it has been the means of convincing me
that I, as well as many other Protestants, have been
falsely impressed in reference to Catholic belief. I
enclose a stamp and ask you to please let me know
where I can procure a Bible used by Catholics. Again
thanking you for literature, I am.
St. Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore, Md., June 5, 1920.
I tha nk you for your ready and kind response to my
request for information concerning the organization
and work of the Catholic Laymen’s Association of
Georgia. I found it a source of pleasure and edifica
tion to learn of the thoroughness and zeal of the Asso
ciation in its glorious work. May it continue to be
blessed. (Signed) J. C. Shortall.
National Catholic Welfare Council. The Hierarchy
of the United States. Washington, D. C., May 28,
1920: I wish to acknowledge receipt today of some
pamphlets of the Catholic Laymen’s Association of
Georgia. You are doing splendid work and my pray
ers are with you. Sincerely yours, (Signed) John J.
Burke, C. S. P., General Secretary.
Augusta, Ga., June 24. Kindly allow me to thank
you for your letter and literature of the 23d. I be
lieve that the great criticism of your church is caused
by the people being misinformed as to your doctrines,
and I trust that the day is near when we shall have
that friendly feeling among Georgians that you speak
of in your letter.
Macon, Ga., June 24. Yours of the 23d received,
and wish to say that I appreciate very much the copy
of “The Faith of Our Fathers.” I want to thank you
very much for answering all of my questions, which
are answered to my entire satisfaction.
Marietta, Ga., April 2 7, 1920. Sirs:—1 have wrote
you once or twice not to send me any more of your
poppy cock on Catholicism, and you keep on annoy
ing me with the rotten, hellish and deceitful stuff, and
now you need not think that you can fool the people
all the time, and as to your Knights of Columbus
Oath, I have one taken from the records at Washing
ton, and it is quite different to your sugar-coated one
in your circular. If you have such good societies in
the Roman Catholic Church and its institutions, why
in the name of high heaven did you all not want the
Georgia Legislature to investigate same some years
ago. You know you are wolves in sheep’s clothing,
and that what you are sending out is rotten to the
core, and you are trying to deceive the general pub
lic. Don’t send me any more of the rotten, damnable
stuff, I don’t want to see it.
Atlanta, Ga. The various pamphlets and bulletins
which I have been receiving from the Association
have afforded me very interesting as well as helpful
reading, and I wish to take this occasion to thank
you for placing my name on your mailing list.
Vada, Ga. 1 occasionally receive some literature
from you which I very much appreciate. Am not a
member of any church, but would be glad to learn
the truth concerning your church. Have read Car
dinal Gibbons’ “Faith of Our Fathers.” I have the
utmost confidence in the sincerity of Gibbons. Will
appreciate anything you send me, and especially any
thing written by Cardinal Gibbons.
Atlanta, Ga., April 21, 1920. 1 have read your
Bulletin with pleasure. Better a tardy acknowledg
ment from me than none. I have been ill and de
pressed, hence no letter before this time. I have noth
ing but praise to send you. The necessity for your
work is made manifest when I see by the morning
paper that Watson carried fifty counties in this State.
What a commentary on the patriotism, the honesty
and belief in fair play of the citizens of this State.
It makes me feel ashamed of the State of my adop
tion. I am humiliated as much as disgusted. The
practical effect of your work is recognized by all
Catholics, the need of it is accentuated by the present
primary. I have always had my doubts about the
old saw, “Truth crushed to earth,” etc. It stays
crushed a long time, and when finally able to raise
its head, it gets another whack with the same old
bludgeon in the hands of some other party. The old
lies which have been answered completely hundreds
of years bob up with undiminished vigor requiring
another burial all over again. Excuse this discursive
letter. I have naught but commendation concerning
your Bulletin. Keep up the good work—you have
certainly the moral support of all Catholics, in fact,
all fair-minded men, regardless of creed. Believe me
to be, most sincerely yours (Signed), J. Carroll
Payne.
Catholic University, Washington, D. C., April 16,
1920: My late return to the University after Easter
in part accounts for my delay in acknowledging your
kind letter, and in thanking you for the pamphlets. I
must confess that I requested one of your pamphlets,
“Catholics and American History,” from a rather
selfish motive, viz., because I have been working on
nearly this same subject during the winter. I must
congratulate you on the excellence of these pamphlets
that you sent me; but more especially to be con
gratulated I think are yourselves, members and of
ficers of your Association for the zeal and interest
that you have put into this work to make it such a
success. I have often thought that such an Associa
tion should be started in many parts of the country,
but scarcely hoped that it would remain for the Cath
olics of the South to initiate this movement. Your
great success is well merited, and I shall be glad to
bring it to the attention of others in this section. I
must, thank you for putting my name on your mail
ing list, as I shall be glad to receive copies of all your
publications. With hest wishes for your continued
success, 1 remain sincerely yours (Signed), J. F. Leary.
St. Tammany Council, No. 1380, K. of C., Cov
ington, La., April 18, 1920. Editor, Catholic Lay
men’s Association of Georgia Bulletin, Augusta, Ga.
Dear Sir: I am glad to see such a vigorous plant as
The Bulletin springing up from a soil so frequently
alleged as alien to the interests of the Church. Please
enter our subscription, and send your bill. St. Tam-