...was a man who had captured the attention of all churchmen of the time in which he lived. He was known from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Lakes to the Gulf. His name was everywhere familiar, a household word, " a burning and a shining light," that never grew...

...say that 75 per cent did this ; that 50 per cent did ! that 25 per cent did. Throughout the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific from the Lakes to the Gulf, I find but a few isolated cases, and most of these of comparatively recent origin. Why ? Because heretofore...

...and mighty sentiment, the love of country. It rested in part on the recognition of material benefits. From the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Lakes to the Gulf, the tides of commerce flowed free, unvexed by a single custom-house. The Mississippi with its traffic...

...the continent; so that their moulding, uplifting influence has been, and is being, potently exerted 7 from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Lakes to the Gulf. While it must be conceded that the universities founded in more recent times by numerous states, springing...

...is no longer tenable as the basis of a settled policy. The people who occupy the region that extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the lakes to the Gulf, from Manitoba to Mexico, must be one people. The great idea of national unity, settled by the war of 1861...

...Catholics, who are afraid to call their souls their own. Walk abroad in this great country of ours, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the lakes to the gulf. What sort of a man is the average non-Catholic American whom we will meet? Generally a broad-minded...

...termination of the Civil War. And then the consolidation of the country into one mighty nationality reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Lakes to the Gulf, ushered in a period of unexampled material prosperity. Ever since the war the people of this country...

...fuel resources, for we find a series of great coal deposits extending in well scattered fields almost from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Lakes to the Gulf, while even over much of New England and the coastal plains, vast areas of peat, the primal stage of...

...climatic belts. Now it is known that it thrives, so far as climate is concerned, almost equally well from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Lakes to the Gulf. Certainly, it gives more crops in warm climates where it has a longer growing season, but any part...

...American Union, the permanence of which was demonstrated and guaranteed. There was to be but one flag from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Lakes to the Gulf. The second question concerned the system of human slavery, which was abolished upon the continent....