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Original copiaa , uu. By Alto ?3 H 4 PREACHED BY THH REY. DOCTOR HOWLEY, IX TUB CATHEDRAL, ST. JOH^i'S, ON THE FEAST OF ST. PATRICK. 18C9. • > St. John^s, Neujoundlund. 18G9. 1 I PREFACE. Ik obedience to tlio express wish i<* our late lament- ed Bishop, Di{. MuLi.ocK,- -lud with the Iiope of contributing ever so little to tli3 honor of the greet Apostlo of Ireland, — I have committed this Discomso to print. As I have stated no fact in it without au- thority, I had intended, if time allowed, to supple- ment it by quotations j but am quite satisfied to abandon this idea, in tho hope that, oven as it is, it will effect a better object than that of mere instruc- Hon. K. V. HOWLEY. I nai'v/' '(',— for ",s ""^^^^" ^^'a'i •• .emi- ' ^^ ^^'^^^gt'r re? ^^^a-'Lanigan.- PANEGYRIC OF ST. PATRICK, St. Joun's, 17th March, 18C9. Pearly Beloved Brothers in Faith : — I shall select no text from Holy Writ wherefrom to illustrate the glories and the virtues of him who is the object of our common veneration on to-day. For well may I address you to-day, as St. Paul did the Corinthians,* " Do wo need Epistles of: commenda- •' tion to you or from you ? You are our Epistle ; an •' Epistle written not on tables of stone, but in iho " fleshy tablets of the heart." Yes, my Brethren, the faith that animates you, grouping you in joyous devo- tion round the altar to-day ; this great temple that you have erected out of the riches of your poverty ; the very features that are uplifted to hear the praises • of Ireland's Apostle, bearing the impress of your descent from Ireland's sons,— all proclaim the praises of the great St. Patrick who begot you in the Gospel, — and by whom and through whom, under God, we are members o.' the true fold, brothers of Christ, and children of the Island of Saints. There are certain things of which it is a virtue to be i)roud ; and there is no virtuous pride so just as the pride of a son in the honor of his father, and the pride of the citizen in the true glory of his country. It is such pride, my Brethren, we are called upon to-day to cherish— a holy pride, in being children, through faith, of the greatest Apostle tlie world ever saw since the days of Paul, and children, through birth or direct descent, of that elect Island that God has chosen to be the summary of His blessings throughout each hemis- phere, and a chief agent m fulfilling the glorious pro- • Cor. II. c. III.,T 1.2,8. "■"ong 11.0 (Jentik-s.-t "'"'' ""^ magniaea memory of that lift. cUosn l.,iT„ '» *'f"'>iP flCTiu the «auso of such u„.„,.akao e h^ ^"^ ''■■'™ "'"" ""^ "P whatever there! i , t, ' f'"? "",™- •^'■"""oa afteetion, to .reet the I^IZ J^TZ'T"'^ """ of him thatitmaybcnerimtte,! . ""''' ■™'' '"'8 to waliUn hta foot '^; ", «'' •' "»• f «» at a .lUtauee^ co.,d„et of jour lives '■'^'-■'' "'^ ^•'""e^ i» the f °::. ~iXi!:;H,r- -' h"^— tlw faith to the verv I l.t . ■ " '""' ^P"-""" t^^ugh Southern" i"™;;;;:r .?' ''^'- ^■^"■-''-. B'""">. 'U. to the verv nM 1''°'"' ""'""»'' and Ireland still rem,in?i "'^ Caledonia- «.e dread or tri n;r ^l.^r^T"" ""^'^ "^ ring conquest of t.L 111; , m '"" '""'■" «'"'"- Island on the bri k ot t •7'; '''' """' «'■<""' breast hale receive,! the order of I . "■'■ '""" ^■""'"■■""■■'. "f l>atrick-s ,h," (,,?,' '"" """'■ "'" ''"•-"' St. ratriek f, J : 'Tr''- ;" "'" "S" "l-si.Meen '«"■"" he re,„aine,l siv vl .'"""■ '" ""^ '•""- <'Uti,„uri,:L-ofih..s,i,„.. .. . '"■ '""<•'' "K is the 'llK.-,.„ntst'ral,l„delo(iodforlhise..p. I I i I iivity, which at first he looked upon as the greatest misfortune. All His virtues appear in full relief when he counts up the blessings God showered upon him m his solitude. He tells us how ho came to kno\r him- self, and to know God, when left with no one but God and himself to commune with. His knowledge of himself, gained in his solitude, taught him the most sublime 1 umility. "I, Patrick," ho breaks out years alter, oven wlien the triumph of his great mission had been achieved-'- 1, Patrick, a most unlearned sinner, ' thelctistofall the faithful, being ignorant of the " true (Jod,was brought captive to Ireland with many thousand men, accorduig as wo had deserved.'' He thinks no words too strong to express his self abase- ment— and after all, what had he chichy to accuse himself of. What is but the too frequent shipwreck of youth-carelossnoss about things roligious-he "did not "kcop (Jod's commandments,anddisobev.aiiis priests "who advised him for his salvation.'^* These words express a general laxity, a growing si.irit of indiflferenco thatAvonld soon load to vioo, rai .r than the habit, of any vice or the commission of any crime— and after wards we road, that when oNory elfort was ma. o' the doctrines of christianity,for ho was a i'hiistian of holy (Christian j)aients ; but a want of that it.timnto knowle :!g^ of (Jod anv(lan absence ot that h.voofdodho afierwards aciuirod in so intiMise a degree in tho solitude and silence among the bcaulitnl iiills of Krin. Hnnulity, then, was tho great virtue of tliis Saint, and that • Co! '■■.bi'.r.i I f St. r«iltick Tr 8 ncconnt. for the firmness and endurance of the vork on the ignorance of my Touth "'.r, I compassion recourse to that voice ef 'bnmb so„f "o" Gol"' .aturu. as the .ai. of a distressed infLt To i tsmot'eT -ferrentand constant prayer. "I was frem,.„fr ns every day." he says' "Ihat the it foTGo ^S be more enkindled in my heart, that fear ami fSh mul energy wo„id be increased so much so thS, n e.. /o''rn™:;::rtrrten;i.;"^„n: Lord was fervent witliin me". v„ •^'""'^^"f f'o >vo havo,liscovero,l tl secret' of the ' 7 '^^''*'""' «tpatricMuhisaaer,i,:!it:::t:f,rr::rf In poiKlorin- the liA, ofSf. Patrinl- xrr .1. itt ntjilossio ■.u'cniui i\u- n. ' '^"^'^ ^f^' should ho — J'"""-'-^-" '■' '■••""'-■•=.< clothed wUU his il E penetrable arinor-lmmility— lui.l u- •! ^l w''l' I'i^ iiivinciblo sveapon-pmyor-lH' wn'.ite.l no move to rro forth and cominer-an.l tliou-Ii ho nftorwar.U spent lonff years in preparing himself by study for the groat mission that liad been assi,i.ned him, it was really as a poor eaptive in the j^^lens and fastnesses ot Ireland that he learned the secret of subdiiin,-.- men's souls. This, my Brethren, is the philosophy of the life of St. Patrick. ' Xow let us "« P''^^^'^^! 18 >ears of Jus ].fe, when, as Eric, the Bio^a-apher GerJai^""";'.-'"''"'"^ '^'^^ the Holy ^Bilhop •PoTe Of h!r. ". ^' ''''' ^^^-^"- the ot which bein.ir approved, and leaning o^i its a-ithonty and strengthened by its blessing ho songht Ireland, and bein. ..ven'to that pe ^ as 'heir chosen Apostle, he illustrated Ireland hen as he does now, and will do for ever, with the won: derful privilege of his Apostleship " s-on'of;t''T";"Vr?. ^'"^'"'^^^ '''' "^^'^'^^'^ ^i«- ."a."/^^^^ 1^^"^'«' How then r did St Patrick for, Ireland and her people for the 18 KM s since he had left her shores, a shepherd's tol 1 1 T^^""'"'^'""'"'"*'^^ ^'"^-P^^^ -'^o-ty to teed the sheep and lambs of Curist ?-Ah, no. my Brethren, he loved Ireland ; Ireland was ever in his heart during this time. He saw her people ui his visions-presenting their petitions, which were inscribed with the " mr Hibcnionnn"^ and their voices rang in his ears day and i^igh't. Oh, holy youth, wo entreat you to . omc an.l walk among u.s."i Por /.. ho left famiy and friends -iorA.rhe resisted all their atfectionptc entreaties never again to be severed from them. F<.r hrr, that Im iii>«Iit do a perfect work of lovo to her, he shut him- selt up during those long years in dim cloisters, po- ring over the learning of sagos, and drinking in the scu3nco of the Saints ;-aud at last, when his prepa- 11 ration was sufficiently complete,— true to the teach- ings ot his humility— true to the iostincts of his fuith and the counsel of his superiors, he repairs to Rome, the centre of Catholicity, to obtain his mission from the Vicar of Christ, even as the first Apostles obtained theirs from Christ himself. History records nothing of the meeting of Patrick with Celesiine, but we may well imagine the joy of the holy Pontiff when he welcom^^d St. Patrick. St. Celestine was one of the most zealous and holy Popes that ever swayed the sceptre of Peter, and, together with his solicitude for the universal Church, it is not mere imagination to sup- pose that he took a special interest in Ireland. He had heard much of Ireland ; he had already sent a Bishop there, Palladius, who, after a slight success, was expelled the country and soon after died. Ireland, though a Pagan nation, had already in some slight degree received the faith and produced some eminent Christians. Among the rest Sedulius, or Shell the Elder, the author of some of the most beautiful Latin poems of our liturgy, and the celebrated Celestius, companion of the heresiiirch Pelagius ; and, according to St. Jerome, far a more brilliant and subtle man. This Celestius, the Irish Theologian, was condemned of heresy in iwome, by Pope Zosymus, and recanted his errors for the time in the church of St. Clement in that city, now served by Irish Dominicaus. From all tho j'xcounts w<' can gather, Celestius awakened a great interest in himself and his country in the holy city ; and from tiio fact of Ireland producing so great a Christian, though an erring one- one who had called together iu council the Pontiff of Home and his Senate -we may gather what an interest Celestino must have taken in the project of St. Patrick for tho complete evangelization of that Island. Thou tbero 13 w.,sou,.Sm„t,„-ai,l,i.ssim|,li..ir.v, his piotv, his ,in. cu,lo,u, „, „,„ people ^.i.h whom h,- h.,l li!"a for K ye«« ; ln,s speeiuion, ofthc.irh,„s„aoe,n„l litorata.'e- «oij nor being repnlscd and sncceedino- after ,o7« »:':« 'iCtr^i''"'"'' r\ ^■"■^•"^" -^ >-""^" - -^ -t 11 m latnek, and having once planted the ^ ..ft of .resns which he carrid. in the soft earth of I. n, he never left her till he had given her to God This was henceforth his country, never to bo abau .loiiod „11 his .,onl took its happy ftigl,' .0 the h nd <>t the ,„st. The rest of the history of St. Patrick i, iam.har to yon all ; it is almost nneventlnl in its licace.nl timmph ; almost monotonous in itsnna'.era- ble ,sncc,.ss, by one bold stroke of Apostol e J^eal dine at the very day andhonr ,.f his landin-r .be work o, .atrickmaybe said to have been ertec^ <•st the snakes of demons, the temptations of vices, the n dmafonsot the mind, against every man wh^ medi- tates jvd towards me, far or „ig„, alone or wuL "I place all these powers between me and every evil, ^.memful powers directed agains. my soul and my body as a protection against the incantations or false prophets against the black- laws of Gentilism, aga-nst he talse laws of heresy, against the treachery ott-tX- try, against thespells of witches and Unihls; ,,'all evervknowledge which blinds the soul of n, m 'C Christ protect me .his day against poison. JZ burning, against .Irowning, against wounding,^uu, 1 merit a great reward. ° •' Christ be wilh mcChristbefor,. me. Christ after me Christ m mc. Christ nn.ler mo, CLvist over luc UihS at my right hand. Christ ou my left, Chrilt' aVthis 15 Mao, Christ at that side, Christ at my back. May Christ be in the heart of each person to whom I may .De-ik Christ in the month of each person who speaks to'^; ChLt in each eye which sees me, Christ in each ear which hears me." After reading this prayer we ean no longer wonder at the qnick and sudden eonversion of Mam. or at "he fact that it was aceomplishcd without blood- shed. St, Patrick had to preach to a genei^ous but fl rt and warlike race-wedded with that tenacty :falUsolated peoples to i'-'-S-.; '™;> ^'^^^^^^ worship-Already the warlike spirit of the people Z carried the banner of Eiin victorioin. to England Gaul and even across the Alps to the plains ot Home, wh King Dathiof Connaught had met and troub ed The Imperial legions in their own stronghold ; but beside the turbulent spirit of the people, the ftaut had to contend with the Druids, a fanatic priest- hood well versed in Pagan learning and obser- vances • but by the lessons he had learned years ago •n h s solitude.-lessons of humility, prayer conh- dence in God-he coinuers all. Many attempts were tdeipon his life-bat there was something about Te Saint the Pagans could not understand some- thing that surrounded him -.ke an impenetrable wall, 1.1 Uhev fell on their knees before they could touch s s lered person-he was invested with the divine p,:^" d like the Saviour, a virtue issued from liim ll^cioiisly that subdued all that appn-ae bed him The rest of the History of St. latiick is the d,^scrip.i..u o; a triumphant march-he visited all parts of I^-ehnu-.. lived to a very old a" baptised, eonlirniod, urdVincd and consecraud • llavcr;y, 4c. 14 1 1 16 — founded schools and monasteries, built churches ; and having found Ireland sunk in the darkness of idolatry, lett her a nation of Christians and Saints. He had the satisfaction, given to few, even Apoiitles, of living to see his work completed. When about to die he retired to his favorite monastery (S Saul), and last prophetic i)rayer for Ireland can bo likened only to the prayer ot the Kedeemer for His Church before his death. The Prater op St. Patrick. " I pray that my Lord may never suffer mo to " lose these people whom He has purchased from the " extremities of the earth. And if ly imitation I •' have done any good for my God whom I love, I pray " Him to give me he grace to shed my blood for " these converts, and captives of his, even though " my wretched carcass should be deprived of Chris- •* tian burial, should be torn to pieces, should be " thrown out to be devoured by the birds of the " air or the beasts of the field. Consider " these things and believe that all I have done is " the work of God, and this is my Contession before " I die." What was ever written more full of the spir- spirit of God, of whole-souled love for his chosen people, than this simple affectionate prayer — it is like nothing ever written, but the prayer of our Eedeemer. pRiYER OF Our Redeemer.* "Fiuher, I pray not for the worhl, but for thorn that "thou hast given rnc, because they arc thine. Holy "Father, kup them in Thij nv'-^f, Aviiom tl'ou hast " given me. S.inctify ihem in truth, that the world " may know that thou Last sent me, and hast loved • John XVII, vr. J, 11, 17 -Jl, ka, .'them as thou hasL also loved mo. Father, l will them as tuo ^^^^ ^^^^^^^ luist giveu tuat ^vuelc .^ lirethren, St. p! em of all Saints, tUe Kc.loemcr. especially m iudaess and Uumility. Bhinc trust, and uuwavet- '"^HaTlng «,us summan.od the Uf. of St. Patn* Shave bad the oeueflt of Greek or Roman . „fbt- tTrienrnin.'orpower.to eko out lUeiv labors. St. Ta rdp aS«d to a nation of heathens beyond the ^arofEomanconqnest,outsidetbeboundanesofKuro- ^:ln entbtenment. And left thus to ". -tb on^ L benefit of St. Patrick's teachings, what did she . lecome ' the teacher and civiUzer of the world for fave centnrtes. I do not exaggerate, my Brethren ; what Hute is proved by the best -«'»"'- ff^^X after St Patrick, it became a common sajing, m rela Uon to a learned man, " Ivit ad Ilibernos sophia , V t,.„. " " He went to the Irish, lUnstriou* rlt r'^d ^i^^om." RCigion flonrishcd with unwonted vigour, and Ireland became a naUon 1 .f, i«,itc This IS not the time uoi Siiints {iu(l sti.aentb. xuib is p C to unfold to you at length the progress of Irish History-or to show with what su,gnlar vdality iribu xiis J nation had becomo religious and sociui, the Irish lu i p .,:„i, imbued by the teachings and labors of St Pat ick. It is well known, and a matter of world-wide record that from the fifth to the tenth century, Ireland was celebrated as a nation of Saints and ^^^o^^^^' ^'^ hud already made it, like happy Canaan, " a good laud I ]S " of brooks and of waltTs aud of fouutaiiis, in the " plains ol which (h^ep rivers break out ;" • but now the time had come wheu those natural advantages •;vere rivalled,nay suri)assed. by the charms that adorn- ed the national heart and mind under the benign i'tluence of the Faith. Tlie fountains that Religion Oldened up in the hearts of the people, became " fountains of water springing up into eternal life," t and the "deep rivers that broke out," pushing their tide to the furthermost bounds of the known world, were irresistible streams of Irish intellect, not to be confined to their native bed, but through hundreds of Saints and civilizers, refreshing and fertilizing almost every nation of Europe. Irish Bishop?, and Priests ruled the religious and intellectual empire of Europe for five centuries after St. Patrick, as com- pletely, and more lastingly, than Eoman Emperors, Generals, and Legions, for five centuries after the death of Caesar. This may appear an extreme asser- tion ; but who Avill sum up a list of Roman conquerors •whose names will outrival those of Cathaldus ofTaren- tum, Donatus of Fiesole, :Vrigi(iiaii of Lucca, Virgilius of Salzburgh, Gallus of Lucerne, Columba of Jona, Columbanus of France, Germany, and Italy.the founder of the monastery of Bobbio and the abbey ofLuxo- vium in Burgundy ? Even into Iceland, Irish rea^ and learning penetrated, in the person of St. Buan- as a contrast to him, (the laborer among eterna'- . s„ ,ve know, on the authority of grave authors (Colgan and Usher) that Irish monks founded the worid-renowned Universities of Paris and Padua, in the sunny climes of France and Italy. We sometimes hear it said that Ireland has no his- • Deut. VM . t JoUn IV, i 1. 19 >., of tlio Tcat anil enlishtene'l. tor, worthy the '^^^^^^ ;„,„ ,„„ ,„,„,. . have Y,„. have seen, m> » f '"^''' j,, , ,„„„,,ea m«re, .,„otea,towhichehvon,cler, CO. a ^^^^^^ .^ 'hat for at least live -'"''""^^J'^'^t^.ui.eh story of history, h„t to a s-t f^^Z^„, .,,y «,ovUV ChritianlOurope. ^f '^^^ '-'■^,„. ;„, nation, that yourselves, or youi fatliei. , ^^^j,,_ Ltholic preachers o" "- ^^ ; ;;"„V \,e-,and , Ah recall to your nun. s the g«>aU^^ ^ no, my Brethren, tor all,. ntRfi^^^^^ ^ _^^^^^^^^ ^,, to the heavenly l"" %' *!"™i„,,,., gMnt whom He good gl"^"--"'\"T';, :a in " I*xna o, Saints."- ,,, chosen to -"- ^^^.-^^tf .IcLnder, of C.sar, or It might perhaps he said ot ^^ of more modern ^''^'T"! M man Kcnius, they character, elevation o. ™'^ " ™'^ ^_.Ceca«se the elfected their briU.ant f "^'^^^^'^^^^^ essentially nrotive and ohjeet of a<-^'- ^^^ '"^ X,,„, Une ot worldly ; bnt of St ^ ■> " f^'-: '^^ '^^ from the stock «^i"tV'r\^rit:nedi:;edo"r,y that they v.-ere he had planted,-it can De '"• ^ ,,^, ms gvaee, inspired hy Oo'Vs « .do,n, s ^ Uo„^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^ vietoiious througli His power jtis glory, -ercdirectcdtoextendrngno « -H^^^^^^^^^ come and cansr.g that °'\; '.,, j, j^ in heaven." and His will be done on «" •'^'; ,n.„eecding Sanctity is the same m all -Saint. 1 .^ , .Urectly iron, the J!!"--' "7, ' ."^^t."" of election, \ makes its suhjects friends ot ^^^f'^^'"'^ „ „,,ses I .. .Uarers in the divine natnre,' (a «• 1 * ^^^ i it,-) as far a. lUe '■—•■" ":'"';;,:" te'iste of :-aue- I rtivine-but ili.re are ^'•■';'''"; ti in a bt. Pa. 1. 1. 20 says,* " and some iiidcod he gave to be Ai)ostles, aud " some Prophets, and others EvanjEfelists. and others " Pastors aud Teachers ;" and again, + " as one body " we have manv members, but all the members have " not the same office, and we have gifts diflferent ac- *' cording to the grace that is given us, whether pro- " phecy or ministry, or exhortation or teaching." Applying this view of the division of the gifts of tho Holy Spirit to Ireland, we will see that the character of Irish "• inclity was eminently practical. There are not wanted, in the calendar of Irish Saints, men and women distinguished for i)uro asceticism ; but tho jiational instinct of their holiness was to communicate itself to others— to establish itself i)ermanently at homo, and disseminate itself abroad. In a word, the opirit St, Patrick ot tno t.i of Antipodes. .^r. e St PaUiek gave to Irclan.i, fen-ov of Fa.lb What bt. lauiciv „ its observances, „,a indomitaWc love tot '^S » ^'^ ^ j,„,„, u utf . -vetP-ea away torn -;,,;"':,,.,„ L^^ffetod to aoubtedly hcatd, that '"^ ^^^ ^^tteau- , I„.o tlte people w hout '- ^" ^^ ' . :„,e. aftct l-i. , tie. of the cavtU. But ..^ ^^^ ^^^^^ g.^.^„ '"-"'■ ^'tiw „^ . tvf don!, a., the good. .Lich Uer-worldl>- iiio.punj, li„own, her nations hold -lear-ber sou .. ^^ ^^^^^^ „avo si>vt,ug "<" J f^^,„ u,u ehalt of ttutb, say to yon, >">' ^I td' Wevo I toeonsult meto "'■ '"" "'"""' , ' l he atnons tUe r..™mo.t to huMian passion, 1 M>o""' (.outlines ol „,,,,ross,on-hutt U.O -^ ^^^^^^^ ,^.^.,^,,,1 P'-aises I "'"-"'•"\^, .' ' „,.,o forhor tUaa any more than you or I, "ho iiu i,.to calmer othereaneverd., .nrns n> "_^^^^^,.,,.^,^,,,,,.^. obarmels, mnl mstnn s ;. ;^^ MOMS. U IH' ^^♦-l^ ^ l,,,t -viid van- ...mms pasMons so c,isii> .i,^,, S,,,„,yl'.retlnn.lo.nnotth,,d. t. '^^^^ ^^^,^.,, ,,,,,,,ht fronUho,e hnpu sc., I a -" ^^ ^,^^,_,.,, ..i,n,n,e,saUhthel.ord.anll».H pa _^^ , u il ,m Ih.- lii-d "I I'lood;, I'.iiuc. . '"■'"'■■ .1 1.0, a,MU,-,leonqMe~t of pr M''" ' andU.a,hMl.vere..asy...ans.,. in 1^ ^ ^^^^^. ) I oo I We have gone beyond the mere life of St. Patrick, my Brethren, but not lost sight of his memory and his labors. Let us turn our thoughts to him, finally, as he is DOW dwelling in some of the many mansions of the Father's house. It is no doubt a portion of the heaven of the beatified saints to regard from on high the result of their labors on earth. AVhat, therefore, must be the joy of o ir apostle? When the sun rises in the farthest East, ho pays his morning orisons to the Immaculate Victim offered up by some poor Irish missionary of India or Australia. Travelling onward his beams light up some altar, throughout all his course, raised b^the faith of Irishmen or their children, letting, nis last rays fall upon the prairie lands of America, where the Irish missionary has penetra- ted, or, if not, the Iiish emigrant signs himself with the cross and gives honor to his creed and country before resting from his toil. Beliold St. Patrick's kingdom, more brilliant, more extensive, more enduring than all the vain conquests of the world's great. The Keligion of Irelaiul, lilvo the modest Shamrock, its emblem, even Mhen trair>i)led and bruised, can rais-e its head again and smile when the first kind dew from heaven falls to conil'ort it. The Shamrock cannot be extirpated from the soil where it li;>s once taken root. To rcnx/ve it, the very earth it gnv.vs in must be scattered and destroyed. And thus .ilso, as e.xpeiience has shewn, — nothingless tlum the extiuetion of llic Irish race — the destiMctiou <)ftheIri^ll heart, in which St. I'atri' k's I'aith took root — can remove its toundatious or lessen its vigoui — This olistinate elasiiciiy is the jtecnliar national charai'tcristie of the l''aith of Ireland— a blessing rariKMl 1)\ Si. Patrick's labors and preser\ed by his prayi'iN. I.ci us |>i,i\, loo, tlial iie may conliuuc to cMciKJ 111.-- piotrtiion lo uui race all uvei the world — 2^ f, I 1 . oo onr forefathers rtid, " U> walk ,et «, call -V«-^:j;XrZ tbe " .0. TOen«>r«m." BtiU »'»<»'Sf.^\ J;;l„„t from one obscure point. M thevcceo thetasb -^ , ,^, ,,^1. where r:hUdrel a voice tUat Pron,,ses a. ,^-J^ p.„,oise. -"^^; rou Fa'therland, while iife Apostle, to our Faitb, to o „o„Btrv'3 beauty Jlds, while the memo^ of «« -";„ \,,rts-to and sufferings has a grasp up ^^ r n H,r rCrne™anrsnff:r;d for us r;CXie. And -J-;,:- -Te "<" »e f f -f^'^^X ' Lr":; wLh hegave rr^h — ^>ay continue to -»ate^^ r;:;ro:-rrrr :;;i .a.^^^ them for its own.— Amen. !