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FOR BISHOP PAUL OF TARSUS.
Previously acknowledged,.... $1,321.40
Baltimore Cathedral Council, C. B. L., No. 338,.oo00
Hon. Peter H. Burnett, San Francisco,.. 15:45
Weedsport Council, C. B. L., No. 186,.. 1.50
Americas Council, C. B. L., No. 170,... 1.50
Holy Family Council, C. B. L., No. 9I,.. 8.oo
Last November we transmitted to Bishop Paul $1,23.56,
the amount we had in hand then, and we have received the
subjoined letter of acknowledgment:
ADANA, December 24, I893.
MY DEAR REVEREND FATHER:
Permit me by this to acknowledge the receipt of your letter
of November'25, with its draft for ~230 6s. 5d. ($1,I23.56),
which, through the medium of THE CATHOLIC WORLD, you
have been the means of gathering and presenting to the Church
of St. Paul, which we are about to build at Tarsus, in the country of the same Apostle of the Nations. I do not know how
to thank you for this extraordinary favor.
I have commenced to buy material, and have already taken
the necessary steps to obtain the permission of the government
to build this church.
I shall pray every day in the holy Mass that your work
may be blessed a hundredfold by Almighty God, that this-new
year may be for you and the society of St. Paul a happy year,
and that abundant blessings may attend all who were good enough
to donate their offering to help along the work I am endeavoring to do for the good of the.poor souls confided to my care.
My dear Father, I am happy-what a happy Christmas this
has been for me! I have announced this generous donation to
the poor converts, the fellow-countrymen of St. Paul, who,
coming from the Eutychian schism to the true church during
the last twenty-five years, have been content to hear Mass in a
miserable hovel, poor, obscure, and entirely devoid of ornament;
and who, seeing that there are in America devout souls interested in their behalf, are encouraged and filled with consolation. Thanks, a thousand thanks!
We are very sure that St. Paul will, through his intercession,
carry to completion the work he has begun here, and will obtaiR many blessings for our benefactors.
Accept, then, the expression of my sentiments of deepest
gratitude, while I have the honor to remain
Yours devotedly in our Lord, + PAUL TERZIAN,
Bishop of Adana and Tarsus.
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