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New York 14609 USA 716) 482 - OJOO- Phone SERMON BY REV. W. P. ROBERTSON, B.D. HONORARY CHAPLAIN TO THE IRISH PROTESTANT BENEVOLENT SOCIETY MARCH 14th. 1920 AT THE CHURCH OF ST. THOMAS HAMILTON, ONT. BV V^ 5> '9^0 OFFICERS M;i,i. F. (iriftith. :;nl \'ice I'vesident \V. H. Whatrley, Tn'asiinT .Iosej)}i Mdiire, Sc(r,'t;i r\' Auditors A. llohson ;ini| Stewiii-t Council • Inlin Mc('(i\, C. K. Sniyr, W. C. Pr. rk. •HI ;.!>;■(■. P. K. Smith •'""''[ill Hos<. ('h;iirni;iii ('h;i ritii • !e » 'imiiiiit tec Chaplains 111 P.i-lKip lit' \i;i,i:.-ir;i. !ir\-. hr. S| ,:i i| j n^.. \{r\ . K'. i^enisoii. D.I).; I{(.\ . Dr. .^. p,. \,.|s,,:i. \{,\. \\\ \. M' lli".v. I'.. A.; h". ■. . \V. p. R,,|,rvt,on, \<,■^ . S. P. Hnssrll. K..\. l{. M, Diekcv. Ke\ . .1. .1. Morton. Hon. Physicians I'r. .I.unrs .\niler-dn, Dr. ,l;inir~. Pn IVcit v. i)|-, "l-l, .Morris, ,11. Dr. .1. .\. .Mnllin. Dr hine; for thy liglit is come, and the the Lord is risen upon thee.'' 1 want this evening to transfer these words to the lips of atu)ther great servant of (]ay when St. Patrick was broi.frht to Ireland as a slave and the day when he land- ed m Wicklow, a bishop at the'head of a band of missionaries. Consider now the Ireland to which they '•ame as heralds of the Christian Faith. There were a few Christians there. ])iit the prevail- mor religion, the "oflfieiar" religion of the Inbes. was Druidism. We know nothing of llie very first preaching of Christian it v in'lre- iand. Our Lord has .said that the Kingdom of Heaven is like seed growing seeretlv. a'lKl that parabl(> suggests the informal. unpr.'m.Hlitated spreading of the Gospel. Christian slaves in pagan households, merchants bearing their ^•ommerce and Christian soldiers in tlie far- tliing armies of the Roman Empire, were among those who dropped seeds that took root, and irrew m remote plac<>s The work of St. Pat- rick was to organize the scattered communi- ties of Christians into a Church and to evan- srehze the heathen multitudes. These labours oecupied jibout tliirty years, and before he ag(> of • lied, on March 17th. "461 A. D.. at the SERMON BY REV. W. I'. |{OBERTS().\, U. D. 7*2. a vignrniis chui'di hud been hrouj^'lit into oxistencM' aiitl its priniatial sec cstaljlished at Annafrli. a ceiittuy and a half before the foiin "hit ion of Caiiterbnry. Xow, Ihe story of this Irish Cliureh is not a story of nure local interest, appealing only to insular sentiment ; it is one of the most glori- ous chapters in the world-history of missions. From fhe .Itli to the Sth century Ireland was the biirninjjr and Nhininii: lijirht" of Western Christendom; she was the university of p]urope. With jE^reat schools at donard lianjjor. Clou macnois, Lismore and Armafjh. she attracted students from all Enrope to her sliores. And froTu her shores there ^v.nt forth niissionari. s to i'vaufjelize Scotland. Knf;land. and Europe !ts(^lf, as far as Italy. An historian thus des- cribes the position: "Rich in endowments of land^ bestowed by prince.^ and chieftains and skilfully tilled by the monks, the monasteries of Ireland were able to «rr;nit free education, food, raiment a.id books to those thousands who flocked to their halls. Amid the dreadful shock of the fall of the Roman Empire and the dissolution of AVestern Europe by barbarous liordes in tiie .5th and (ith centuries, Ireland beinf? at a distance from the ruin, became the asylum of learninir. atid monks from Ireland then carried back the torch of truth to the devastated renrions of Gaul and Germany." IT. Glance uoav at three great missionarv • titerpnses of the Irish Ghurch : St. Columba. The first is that of St. ''olumba to Scotland. He was of royal Irisli blood, born about half a century after St. Pat- rii'k. the most illustrious of all Irish saints, SKRMOV |'.V Ri:\. W. |>. i{OP.FRTS()\. R. p. the greatest, of 4^ i'atrick's spiritual m.h^. Ai the age of 40 nc sailed with twe've com- panions to .>st;.i)lish a nionastory on the bleak- little island of loiia ofV tlie eoa'st of ?><-otlan(! The earl;- Irish Church. I should tell yon. was [monastic in e! araeter. lint her nh.nasteries were very ditferciit frf.m those iinposiiijr strne- 1ur<'s associated with the name " Monastery "■ to-day. They consisted of ^ronps of liuts hnilt sometimes of mnd and wattles, sometimes of stones laid tofrelher. without mortar, forming- the famous "l)ec-h!V( ■' eel's, similai- in shaj)c and size to the snow huts of the Es(iuiiiuiux. They were sni-rtuinded by a easli(>] or rampai't of earth. These un pre! I'ut ions dwelliufrs were the schools of learnini^. the nurseries of mis- .sionari(>s. llwo. oefore the invention of print- ii.j?. Irish iminks transcribed the Holy Scrip- tures with a skill and care tliat re-uains tin- wonder of the world to-day. with a richness of colourinfT that the centuries have not dim- nied. an intricacy of desiorn modern art can- not repro save by photography. Columba modelled his settlement at lona on the pattern of his beloved Irish monastery. and he with his missionaries set themselves, with great snccess, to win the Picts of the neighboring district for Christ. folumba died at the age of 76. in the year 507 A. D.. but we see him living on in St. Aidan. the Apostle of Xorthumbria. For it was from lona that, forty years later. St. Aidan went to Lindis- farne. or Holy Island, to establish there an- other island monastery for the evangelization of Northumbria. St. Aidan. To understand this Irish mis- SERMON BY REV. \\. i\ KOBERTSOX, B. D. ^!i>ii to Engrlaiid in the 7Mi century, we niust possess ourselves of the l)roa(i fuels with re- <,'ar(l to Christianity in Britain. Perhai)s as i-arly a^ the 1st eentuiy Clirist ianity had been i'reaehtMJ in Ihf island now knowji as Ent,dand; ecrtainiy as early as the 4fh century the P>i'itis!i Clinrcli was represented by bisliops "'■ tlir ('liurcli Councils on tlie Contin- •'"^- '< \\"as of this early British Church that >it. riiii-ud. came, within lier l)osoin that he i-ecoived llic faith \vhi■ in Wcstt rn j-jimpr" as far as Ireland, ^'he coiKpiesf ,,f Britain b\- tli(> |.aid,. I;iy Italy. Oau.l. Spain and Rcnne; on the nthec side thc'churcdi 'd' rrclan.j. Patri.d<, the first !Hissi(.narv of the '"^'.'""'- ''''•! iKd been dead half a ciiifnrv when Irish Christianity flnnir itself with Hei'y /eal into tlif battle with the mass nf !irath("'nd(un whndi was ro'liuir in upn, the Christian world.'' HiMv 1,>1 nie remark that, in a sms,.. the '•■•irly IrKh Chnr-di may Im- called tin first .,f all ••Protcslanf (hurclu's. What I mcaii is that It was the oin' imtioind c'linvdi to maintain an absolnle ami alnu)st conlcmptucuis itnlepcnd- enee <)f the .mat Roman Cliurcli. TInnv was MO difTercTU'e in dfctrine of course, for at this lime the doetrin,', jk Miliarilv charaeterlsl i,. of I SERMON BY REV. \V, ['. R()BERTS(3X, R.I). Rome, which iieccssitattMl tho KefonnatifMi. wero unboi'ii. Hut Romo and Ireland di"" -cd in certain trivial points, and tho story r. tiir Irish mission to Britain will illnstrato what I mean by tho •• Protestant "■ attitude of th.' Iris',, Church. Alxnit forty years before St. Aidaii set up Ins mission in Lindisfarno. ot. Aufrustiiu' had • ■ome from Home to preach to the Anodes and >^axons oftlio land. In the course of his work iie met with remnants of tho old Rritisii ('hundi. which had been sw^pt into AVal-s and Cornwall and had ••stablished intercourse with ihf Irish Churcl). He found that the surviving nninants of this British Chundi (d, served Ivister on a ditferent Sunday from Rome: tlie ■^ame date was ;ds(, observed in Ireland and Avherever the Irish mission held the tield in th- north of Enijriand. .\unrustiii(> strove to secur. (••mforniity 1o th.' Roman usajjo, but. in spile nf the fact lliat the Irish were usinir an old and inaccurate cy(de for recdxoninjr the date i,\' I-^aster. they were (duiurate in their refusal to aecept the Koman custom. Another bone of eon- teidion was the tonsure or the fashion in whieii a monk should cut his hair~a tritliiiir matlei- y(Ui would thiidv but a source of bitter con- 'roversy between tlo- Irish ami the Romans. I he Homan moid< shaved the erown of bis iu'ad, allowini; a frinir,. of hair to trrow al! rouml: the Irish uiouk .shaved all his froTd hair fnun ear to ear. These matlers were still in disjuite wlien St. Aidan died; it remained tor the sec(uid (d" his successors. Colman to tiirht the bnttb to a finish. At ,he .Svnod of Whitby. Oswy. Kins.' of .V ,rtl,nmbria, 'de.-id. d SERMON BY KEV. W. 1'. ROBERTS V, B. D. Jii fiivmn- of the Roiiiaii metliods. Coliiian. ;i typical Irislunan. T sujyposr. was "afjin the liy»\ ;" lie hail soim^tliiiig ol' the spirit of Sinn l'"''in. •• Ourselves alone ;"" paekin^r bag and i'ae content iiieri'ly ,,, mejition one more mission of the Irish Church: that under ("ohnnbanus to the eontinent (d' Europe. He was ;i Lein.sti'r man. iweiity-two years junior to (■olnnd)a. with whom he is sometiines eonfusi'd owiriff to the snnilarity ■ f name. His ]);iiil,- was n(d with pagaidsm. but with the d(d»ased ;ind corrupt life of lands that called Ihenis. Ives Christian, lie toy Imd his (Mmtlicts wrii 1,'oiiie as 1o th. rivaj Kasters and tonsures; to liim heloMu's the distinction id' having wi-itten to (Iregory the ' most sarcastic letter. 1 suppose, a I'ope ever received, instinct with the independ- ence and pride of the IriNhman in his own : "It se(Miie be (dianged : as if Irish and not Roman 'dirist ianitv were to mould the desfinities of the West."" Tli( se are m-Tc fragments froni the liisior\- iritual children would be among those tr. preach to this undiscovere.l ••ontinent the Cosp.d that St. Patrick brought to Ireland— Salvation in Christ and Him cruci- fied? "Arise, shin.': for thy light is eom.'.'- Hifteen centuries have pass.'d sin.-c St. Pat- rick prea<'he(j to Irelan.l. an.l throu-'h those ^'entunes the light 'lat he kindle.l has sh..n<' thr.)ugli th.' worl.l. Sp,.;iking in Ilamiltof, if would be fids.' m..(lcsty to refrain froui refer ring f.) th.' .!..l)t that Caiunbi owes to th.- spiritual sons of St. I'atri.ds : ,)ne has a riirhl t'> natn.' wiih pri.l.. ])u .Moulin. Ca'-mielui.'l Sullivan— three brilli;int Irishmen .>f that ar;iiv you s.une share in his battle f.u- the Cro>s is entrusted. What are you .loing? S..m.- of y.ni J know ar.> the very pillars of y.)ur eliur.dies; <'dl .'<|uil| ;ind birire h'art. Hut n,;i\ I v. ritiire lo ;,sk you to 1 1 ^i:i;m()\ \',\ R\:\. w. v. rorkktjsox, b. D. ;isk yourselves when last you darkened a i'hureli ilonr? Tin se are eritical days in the airairs df men ; idrais of jile and duty, as op- |»osii-' a> 111" poles, arc strivuij^: for the' mastery Mild tlic ultimate domiiuiuce of eivilizatioii. AVluM-" (JM you stand .' For those ideals that art> litiding- t!h ii- most cxtravaoraid (expression in Kussia. lull, in h'sser dc^M'ee. ai-c widespread in this r(stles> mid hi'wildered worhi that follows on t!i( war' Or .h, y(,ii staiol for lh" ("hristian iileals of hrothcrhood, justice, and mercy to ;ill. wiihoiit distiiicli(ui of class.' If so.' you owe to those i(]eals the uuu-ai ^u])po!'t of your presence in Cliuridi ; you uw- to yourself at Jt'asI the we( kly uatlierini;- tojrefher whicl) keeps these id<.als alive and their supporters ardent ['nv tlieir realization. The fiuaneial response to th" l-'erward ^Moveiimiit has been a decisive answer tn those who told us that I""" \v(!-.' tii-rd i.f the Chni-ch; that tliey had -'osl all helief ill the mission or the power of • •rirani/ed ( "hristianit)-. [ siihmit tliat tr.en do not invevl (,ver twelve mJHioiv in ;| (-uneern that t|ie\ couvider ;i failnr,. ,,,• useless. Rut "■•' •"''! ;i iii.o-e decisivi> answr still: "Where .\oor tr, asii!'.. i. i||,.|.,. will your heart he also." !-ol|o\\- \nur dollais into ymir c' urcli. ..rive vour .service as Will jis youi- easli. It is tlie day foi' ii rtew spiritual (.trensive. foi' iiiakin