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 3tlag It |II«a»e IQonr <Srace to grant to an ancient Missionary 
 of Canada and the United States, the favour of deposing at your feet, a little 
 discourse in pamphlet form, on the heroic Faith ok the Irish People, to 
 whose forefathers God deigned to send the great apostle Saint Patrick to 
 announce tiie good tidings, as He has pleased likewise to make use of Saint Remi 
 to convert to the Franks, the glorious forefathers of the French Canadians, in the 
 person of C'ovis and his noble Franks. Your grace has zealously followed the foot, 
 steps of your venerable predecessons, Lartigue and Hourgtt, in granting the the 
 Irish people all the facilities and protection for the ful' development of their Holy 
 Faith ; deij^ii ihen to become the kind patron of this little work, written solely 
 for the incr-as> and triumph of our common Faith, How litt'e so ever this hum- 
 ble homage may be, knowing your ardent zeal and great love for the propagation 
 of our holy Faiih, I come with confidence to present it to your grace ; you wil 
 not despise the glory of the Irish people, their faith, and if the execution remains 
 beneath the magnifence of the grand theme ; your grace will condescend to 
 imitate the goodness of the Queen of Heaven, who receives with an equal indul- 
 gence the diamonds which a royal and princely hand deposes in her sanctuaries 
 and the simple flowers of the mountains, with which the hand of the herdsman 
 decorates her rustic altars. 
 
 I have the honor of remaining, wirh the most profound respect, 
 
 Your Grace's most humble and obedient servant, 
 
 JOSEPH QUINN, 
 
 CUfgyman. 
 

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 6 die Julii, 1892. 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
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 ST. PATRICK'S DAY ORATION 
 
 DELIVERED BY REV. JOSEPH QUINN, 
 
 lAnciviU Missiiiiiarfj <•/ (Uin<i<ln <ni<( the Unitvd Stales, <>n tlie 17th Mnrrh, ISOl'.J 
 
 Before an Immense and very retined Audience of Seven Different 
 
 Nationnlities. 
 
 The eloquent Orator electrified his audience, from the commencement 
 of hi.s superb and magnificent discoui^e. The nuillitude grew patriotically 
 enthusiastic, as the Orator waxed passionate in the profound discriminating 
 historical thought of his tiieine, and wild applause greeted him throughout, 
 as his splendid voice sonorously concluded a passionate appeal to the glory 
 of Ireland or the weird lamentation of her multiplied injustices and 
 national wrongs. It was a unique discourse, and one long to be remember- 
 ed, as well for its historical quaintness, iis for the learning of the rev. author. 
 It was a peerless speech, and one to be long recorded ; unique and original 
 in its composition ; such a discourse should not be left pass by into 
 oblivion ; hence at the urgent request of many friends, the rev. author has 
 reluctantly consented to have this marvellous production of genius, im- 
 pressed in pamphlet form, and thus perpetuated to future generations as 
 an enduring tribute to the genius and eloquence of its renowned author. 
 We hope the public will regard this production in its true light, and give to 
 it the serious contemplation, that such a profound production necessarily 
 calls for. The author is not a volatile writer, he swings a trenchant pen . 
 he is not a tiivial thinker, but a profound one. Therefore the perusal of 
 this little pamphlet, will require more than ordinary intelligence and 
 historical discrimination. That this work may be a source of intellectual 
 pleasure, usefulness to others, and contribute to the glory of God, which 
 the rev. author would feign have it be, is the sincere hope of him who has 
 the distinguished honor of introducing to the public gaze this paragon of 
 historical learning and varied profound eruuiiion, the Rev, Josepli Quirn, 
 Ancient Missionary of Canada and the United States. 
 
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ST. PATRICK'S DAY ORATION, 
 
 — DEMVERKD I?Y — 
 
 REVEREND JOSEPH QUINN, 
 Ancient Missionary of Canada and the United States, 
 
 Before an immense and very refined audience of seven 
 
 different Nationalities. 
 
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 ifi(^()finr Kcii i ryaroi; ariiDi. 
 
 Mementote pr.vposi torum vestronim, (jui voljis Iccuti sunt verbum Deis, imita- 
 mini fidem — doctrinis vanis et peregrir.is noiiii abduci. — Ileb. c. .\lli , v. 7, 9, 
 
 Remember your I'relates, who have spjken the Word of God to y>'\\, — whose 
 faith follow,— and hi not led away with varini-; and strange doctrines — lleb. c Xill,, 
 V. 7, 9. 
 
 Deaf. Bretiiekk, — Accni-tonKHl as I liave aln-nys been, in my various 
 Missions, to announce the Won! of God, to the poor, simple and good people 
 of the conntiy, ever eager to listen to tlie Christian doctrine, anil Ending; 
 myself, on this ever nienioralde occasion, hetorean audience of the higliest 
 learning, science and eloquence, I begin to feel almost intimidated ; but I 
 believe that you, yourselves, have never been called to address a, sitnilarand 
 so extraordinary assembly ; so [ feel imtre consoled ami encouraged to aci^uit 
 myself of this mighty dillicult task, by tiie intimate conviction that yon 
 have of the position, and that you will deign overlook any little blemish 
 you may perceive in this interesting subject, and favour me with your kind 
 attention and indulgence. Now please, permit me, to retnark to you, that 
 the three learned and eloquent orators, wlio have juest preceded me, have 
 been 60 diligent, that they have gleaned almost everything in this tield that I 
 have to pass over, and that tht y have scarcely left me anything to reap ! but 
 I must only do my utmost, and content n)yself with little, although I should 
 
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 ■wi^li to give you more, belter and the very best. But who knows but perhaps 
 I might have good fortune, by my perseverance and energy, like the nice, 
 poor little Moabitees Ruth, 'vho obtained as a favour to be , (lowed to follow 
 the steps of the Reapers in tlie Hold of Booz ; and she did so from morning 
 till evening, and beating with a md, and lliredhing what she had gleaned, 
 she found about the measure of an ephi of barley, that is three bushels, and 
 so it was the Divine will that she so charmed this rich Israelite Booz, 
 that he married her; and by these two the seed of King David wan pre- 
 served, through whom was to l)e born the Saviour of the world, because 
 Booz was David's great grandfather, and you know the Scripture says : 
 Kuth gave birth to Obed, King David's fsither. 
 
 When the Almighty God selects Men, to be the extraordinary Messen- 
 gers of His Councils, Oracles of His Wisdom, Instruments of His Grace, and 
 Cliannels of His boundless Mercies, He confers on them, those wonderful 
 gifts, talents and viitues that are re(iui«ite to quslify them, for the execution 
 of His orders, and for that acoomplishment of the grand designs of His all- 
 ruling Piovidence! thus Hequalilied Moses, Aaron and the Prophets in the 
 Old Law, and the twelve Apostles in the New, for the solemn embassy, and 
 the heavenly commission, on which He was pleased to send them ; He in- 
 vested them With every power they stood in need of, in order to discharge 
 the duti.s of t'leir Ministry with success; He communicated to them all 
 the eminent gifts and talents that w^re necessary to enable them to encoun- 
 ter the ditticulties, and surmount all the ob-tacles, which stood in their way, 
 and which attended the due execution of the high commission they were 
 charged with. Among the many other renowned characters and remark- 
 able instances of this truth, we may .justly rank St. Patrick, the glorious 
 Apostle and Patron of Ireland, whose feaat the Church solemnises this Day. 
 When the Lord, in His great goodnes, singled him out for the grand work 
 of the conversion of the Irish Nation, to the Christian and Catholic Religion, 
 when He sent him as an instrument of His divine mercv, to announce the 
 mystery of the Cross, to our Ancestors, and to enlighten a People, who, as 
 the Scripture expresses it, were silting in darkness and the gloomy shades of 
 death, He (lualitied him also in every respect, for the arduous enterprise, 
 and made him at once a most zealous Apost'e, and an illustrious Saint, that 
 he might diffuse the light of the Gospel all over Ireland, by his indefatig- 
 able zeal, and e8tal)lisli the spirit of tlie Gospel, by his eminent sanctity ; 
 it will be under these two considerations that I intend to represent Saint 
 Patrick to you, at present, as a precious vessel of election and model of 
 Christian peifection; he rooted-up infidelity and planted Catholicity in 
 Ireland; he banished vice and immorality, and promoted the practice of 
 true piety and solid virtue, both by his word and example: such is the plan 
 of the following discourse. 
 
The Scripture informs us thaf th« Saviour of the World retired into a 
 xlesert, and prepared Himself by prayer, and by a rigorous fast of forty days 
 and forty nights, before He entered upon His mission of preaching the 
 <jJoepel and reclaiming sinners from their ev'lways; in like manner the 
 most authentic historians of St. Patrick's life, informs us that this faithful 
 disciple and follower of Jesus Christ our Lord, spent several years in pre- 
 paring himself, by fasting and praying, before he entered upon the sacred 
 functions ol the Apostolic Ministry. That he might preach the Gospel with 
 fruit to others, and draw their souls more eifectualJy to the love and service 
 of God, he first began to preach to himself, to regulatt his interior, to cul- 
 tivate the vineyard of his own soul, and to tieasure-up lessons of solid piety 
 and true virtue in his mind. Such was* the delicacy and tenderness of his 
 conscience, that he accuses himself in his iv n writings, which are called 
 his confessions, that he was rather tardy anJ remiss in not having begun at 
 an ear'ier period, to love the Lord his God above all things and with his 
 whole heart from the very firdt instan* nat the use < *" reason rendereil him 
 capable of paying his Creator thi.; tribute vvliioh is so justly due to his 
 sovereign Majesty on a thousand titles ; bene iie tells us that 'le could not 
 refrain from weeping for his past neglect, whenever he recollected that his 
 heart had been, even for a single moment, ir'cnsible and void of divine 
 love. Herein he imitated the piety of the penitent Aug- stin, who thought 
 that he could never sufficiently bewail and regret every day, every hour, 
 every minute of his past life, which had not been fiUed-up with acts of 
 divine love, and who, in order to clear off the long arrears of love, which on 
 account of his former neglect, appeared to be still due by him, made it his 
 constant study, ever after, to redouble his love for God all the days of his 
 life, and labored with indefatigable zeal, to kindle llames of divine love in 
 the hearts of every Christian, crying-out for this reason, in the fervour 
 of his soul : () Beauty ever ancient and ever new ! sovereign Good O! 
 inexhaustible Source of all sweetness and perfection ! too late, too late, 
 alas ! have I begun to love Thee, that I could begin my course over again, 
 that every moment of my life might be filled with tokens and proofs of my 
 love for thee my God and my all. Saint Patrick was born the year of Our 
 Lord three hundred and seventy one ; his family name is Succat ; the name 
 of Patrick was given to him after his consecration in Rome, as an honorary 
 title, such as that of the Roman Patricians ; his grandfather's name is Potit ; 
 his father's name is Calphurnius ; his mother's name is Conchessa ; she was 
 related to Saint Martin, the lenowned Bishop of Tours in France : different 
 Nations claim him for their countryman. Some historians aflSrm that he 
 was born at Bonaven, believed to be a burg of Kill-Patrick in Scotland, near 
 the mouth of the river Clyde, between Dunbirton and Glasgow ; others pre- 
 tend he was a Frenchman : his relations lived in France ; he studied niue 
 
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 years in the Monastery of Lerins in France; he visited the Bishop of 
 Auxerre in France, and was under the tuition ci" St. Martin, Bishop of Tours 
 in France ; the legend of the Roman Breviary reads that he was born in Great 
 Britain ; but you will all admit with me, that the Irish Nation has the best 
 of all rights to claim St. Patrick, and we will not suffer any other nation to 
 claim him as he spent sixty-one years in Ireland, labouring constantly for 
 the conversion of Ireland, and died, and was buried in Down, Ireland. 
 Whilst he was on a certain day, in the sixteenth year of his age, putting-up 
 his lervent prayers to Heaven, in a retired place, situated near the borders 
 of the sea, he was surprised by a set of barbarian pirates, who then infested 
 the British coasts, and was suddenly carried off from his family and native 
 country, and brought captive into Ireland, the very land which he was after- 
 wards to deliver from the darkness of infidelity and from the dismal cap- 
 tivity of Satan. Admire here, my brethren, the wonderful ways of Divine 
 Providence ! we read in the book of Genesis, that the Patiiarch Jose, h, by 
 a disposition of Providence, was carried off in his youthful days fron hi& 
 from his native country, and sold as a slave in Egypt, that he might 
 be the means of relieving the Egyptians aftewards, in the hour of 
 distress, and supplying both them and his own father's household, with the 
 necessaries of life, during the continuance of a dreaful famine that raged 
 over that land for the space of seven years ; by a similar disposition 
 of the same Divine Providence, about the decline of the fourth 
 century, the virtuous and pious youth Patrick was stolen from his parents, 
 and carried off and sold as a common slave to Melcho, a petty Prince, in 
 the County of Antrim, that bj' being inured to hardships and by being well 
 actjuainted with the language and manners of the natives of Ireland, he 
 might be bettf^r (jiialitied to undertake the great work of tlieir conversion 
 at a future period and become the happy means of supplying both them 
 and the churches of his own native country with a sufficient number of 
 zealous clergymen and competent missionaries who would break the 
 heavenly bread of the Word of God to the little ones, and nourish their souls 
 with the food of eternal life, in the days of their spiritual famine and dis- 
 tress. Tluis it happened that Patrick whom Heaven had ilestined to become 
 one day a great pastor of souls in Ireland, was previously employed in the 
 loAV and painful servitude of feeding cattle on the mountains and in forests 
 ■where he was for considerable time, constantly exposed to the inclemency 
 of the weather, and the rigors of poverty, hunger and nakedness ; far how- 
 ever, from repining at his despicable situation, far from, murmuring or 
 complaining of the dispensations of Providence, far from flying in the face 
 of God, as numbers of the distressed and suffering poor of our times un- 
 happily do whereby they not only loose the merit and remard of their 
 alllictions and crosses, but likewise exposed themselves to the manifest- 
 

 danger of becoming slaves to satan hereafter after having been drudges and 
 slaves to sin in this world. Patrick, I say, far from pursuing so criminal a 
 line of conduct, made a virtue of necessity, and carried his cross and bore 
 his severe trials with patience and resignation for the love of his blessed 
 Redeemer Jesus Christ. His sufferings were, of course, to him a source of 
 heavenly benedictions, and served only to furnish hin with daily oppor- 
 tunities of practicing the virtues of humility, meekness, obedience and 
 submission to the holy will of God. Now, as we read in the second book of 
 Machabees, chapter the XVth, verse the 40th, for as it is hurtful to drink 
 always wine or always water, ')ut pleasant to use sometimes the one and 
 sometime the other, so if the speech be always nicely framed it will not be 
 grateful to the readers, I thought I would relate a little anecdote to you. 
 Some thirty years ago a missionary fattier was giving ii retreat to the men 
 of St. Patrick's Church, in Montreal, and amongst the other important 
 remarks he made to them was one concerning the manner they should 
 bear with one another's faults, in their families, with their wives, in tine. 
 bear their crosses, and to elucidate his subject he said : I had recently 
 married a young couple, Michael and Bridget, but they were not long 
 married when Michael came to me to complain of Bridget and relate al\ 
 his crosses, and said that his heart was fairly broken. I advised him in the 
 best manner I could, and told him, my good man just carry your crosses. 
 So when Michael had returned home it was not long when Bridget began 
 as usual, to scold Michael, and call him all the bad names she could think 
 of, and the worst was not bad enough. At this Michael recalled to his 
 mind the good advice he had received from his pastor that he should carry 
 his cross; so he caught Bridget by the two arms and swung her upon his 
 back, walking hither and thither with Bridget upon her back, crying out : 
 " I must carry my cross ; the priest told me ; I must carry my cross ; oh ! 
 for God's sake." Michael, cry ed out Bridget, " let me down ; I will never 
 do it again." " Oh ! I cannot ; the priest told me ; I must carry my cross.'' 
 So when Michael had carried his cross to his heart's content and Bridget 
 had been all exhausted Michael laid down his croijs, and Bridget behaved 
 ever after a good a;id kind wife. But, as you are aware, this is not the way 
 Christ wishes us to carry our cross, nor the way the saints have shown us ; 
 but we are to pray to God for grace to endure patiently one another's faults 
 and unite our crosses with Christ's sufTerings, and acquire thereby a crown 
 of glory with Christ and his saints. " If you wish to be my disciples," says 
 Christ, " take up your cross and follow ine." If we sufier with Christ, say 
 Saint Paul, we will be glorified with Christ. But to return to St. Patrick, 
 whilst he thus discharged e^ ry exterior duty belonging to his state with 
 cheerl'ulnesr< and attended to the cattle of his earthly master with the 
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 mostly in heaven, for he united contemplation with action, and in the 
 midst of his daily employments he took care to elevate his heart frequently 
 to God by pious aspirations and short, but devout and fervent prayers. It 
 is related in his life that he was accustomed to adore God on his bended 
 knees no less than a hundred times in the day and in the night, by which 
 means the love of God continually inllamed his tender heart more and 
 more, and acquired every day new strength in his affectionate soul. No sooner 
 was he released from his bondage than the designs of Providence began to 
 be manifested, for he felt the strongst impressions from heaven to under- 
 take the glorious work of converting the Irish Nation without any further 
 delay. Any other motive than the greater honor and glory of God could 
 never have induced him to undertake so arduous an enterprise and so 
 difficult a work as the general conversion of an entire nation, where vice 
 was authorized by practice, and impiety strengthened by custom. The 
 The saints Albee, Declau, Tbar, and Kiaran had preached the Gospel in 
 Ireland before Palladius. Palladius being a bisliop, was the first who 
 formed the plan of converting the Irish Nation to Christianity ; but having 
 met with violent opposition he converted but few, and departed in a short 
 time. The general conversion of Ireland was reserved for St. Patrick, who 
 having traveled into Gaul and Italy /or the purpose of acquiring a com- 
 petent stock of sacred learning, chiefly under the tuition of his uncle, St. 
 Martin, the renowned Bishop of Tours, in France, was promoted to Holy 
 Orders, and received his episcopal consecration and lawful mission from the 
 successor of St. Peter the Apostle, Pope Celestine, in the year of Our Lord 
 four huudred and thirty-two. He did not intrude himself into the ministry 
 without a true vocation. He did not presume to exercise the sacred func- 
 tions of the priesthood without being regularly ordained. He did not 
 attempt of nis own accord to dogmatize or turn preacher and teacher with- 
 out a proper mission, like unto the False Prophets of Old Law, who, as ttie 
 Scripture complains, came without being sent, and preaching, thus speaketh 
 the Lord, whereas the Lord said : I did not speak, or like unto the New 
 Gospplers and fanatics of these latter ages, who are called by Our Lord wolves 
 in the clothing of sheep, and who force themselves into the sheep-fold 
 without any mission, either extraordinary from God, like that of the 
 Apostles mentioned in the Scriptures, or ordinary, from the pastors of the 
 Churcli by the imposition of hands, like that spoken of in the Acts of the 
 Apostles, St. Paul to Timothy, chapter the fifth, verse the twenty-second. 
 And again, St. Paul speaks thus in his second epistle, verse the sixth, to his 
 beloved Timothy, whom he consecrated Bishop of the Church of God : 
 " For which cause I admonish thee that thou stir up the grace of God, 
 which is thee by the imposition of my hands. No, my brethren, St. Patrick 
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 Faith, originally taught by the Apostles, to plant the Catholic religion and 
 open the fountains of salvation, grace and mercy to sinners. No sooner 
 did he land at Wicklow with about twenty fellow-laborers and zealor.s 
 assistants, than he began to weed, to plant, to water and cultivate the new 
 vineyard of Christ. But how did he complete his designs? Ah ! he knew 
 well the divine secret of St. Paul : " I planted, Apollo watered, but God 
 gives the increase ; except the Lord build the house they labor in vain that 
 build it ; except the Lord keep the city he watchet in vain that keepeth it, 
 psalm 26th, v. 1, 2." Without me you can do nothing, says Christ. St. 
 Patrick placed his confidence in God, and as he was a man of piety, recol- 
 lection and prayer, he possessed the art of converting sinners, of softening 
 their hearts, of subduing all the powers cf their souls, and infusing more 
 virtue into them than a more learned man, with all his empty science 
 would be able to do, for though a man of extensive knowledge may argue, 
 convince and charm others with his elo<iuence, yet, if the spirit of piety 
 be extinguished m his heart, he is no better than a sounding trumpet, or a 
 tinkling cymbal — ossonaus, cymbalum thinieus — (St. Paul, first Pipistle to 
 the Corinthians, chapter thirteenth, verse the first) though he should speak 
 the language of Men and Angles. These maxims were the plan of St. 
 Patrick's conduct, and this I call the magnetism of St. Patrick, and by 
 these means he had the happiness to gain over inutnerable Proselytes. He 
 appeared with undaunted courage at the general Asse "bly of the Kings 
 and States of Ireland, which was held every year at Tara (Eiist Meath) the 
 residence of the Chief King, who was styled the Monarch of tl ivhole 
 Nation. Brethren, let u^ pause here a little and admire this Koyal, Majestic 
 and imposing assembly of the Kings, Heathen Druid priests and people of 
 Ireland preparing to meet St. Patrick and barken with the greatest rever- 
 ence to the divine oracles of grace, mercy and consolation that tlowed fronx 
 his blessed lips. This is the battle-field of our Irish Catholicity, as well as 
 of our Irish Nationality. They must con(iuer or fail ; but fail they cannot 
 in the hands of St. Patrick. He could say : veni, vidi, vici, as Cesit-r of old : 
 I came ; I saw; I concju red. What did he do and say? He iook the 
 three-leaved Shamrock in his hand and showed it to the Kings. Heathen 
 Druid priests and the people of Ireland and that Shamrock, in the hands 
 of St. Patrick, was the emblem of the baptisim of our Irish Nationality. 
 Then wifh the same three-leaved Shamrock he proved to them the Trinity 
 and Unity ; the Unity and Trinity of God; and he said : This first leaf is 
 a Shamrock, this second leaf is a Shamrock, and t his third leaf is a Sham- 
 rock, and still these three leaves make but one and the same Shamrock ; so 
 in God, there are three divine persons, the Father is God, the first person; 
 the Son is God, the second person, and the Holy Ghost is God t he third person, 
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 Shamrock was then and ever after the emblem of the baptism of our Irish 
 Catholicity, and ever since the Irish people glory in that dear little Sham- 
 rock, as the emblem of their Religion and Nationality, both of which they 
 received on tliat ever memorable day through Saint Patrick. Now that 
 dear little Shamrock is very significative ; it is a sign, an emblem of some- 
 thing spiritual, a mysterious little emblem ; speak little Shamrock. What 
 dost thou represent? I represent Irish Catholicity and Irish Nationality; I 
 represent the Church of God, Militant on Earth, Suffering in Purgatory, and 
 Triumphant in Heaven. I represent the doctrine of Catholicity ; one Faith, 
 one Lord, one Baptism ; I represent the Divine Virtues, Faith, Hope, and 
 Charity ; I represent Irish Patriotism, Love of Creed, Love of Country, and 
 Love of Race; and our own Immortal Tom Moore, in his gem-like Irish 
 Melodies, presents us the Shamrock as the token of Love. Oh! the loving 
 and warm hearts of Ireland's Sons and Daughters for Ireland ; and the 
 token of Valor, was there ever a more valiant General, Officer, or Soldier, 
 than an Irishman on the field of battle ? I never heard of an Irishman run- 
 ning away from the enemy, or the roaring canon, did you ? And the Sham- 
 rock is a token of genuine Irish wit, the Irishman is proverbial for his keen 
 genuine wit. Oh ! the Shamrock ! the Shamrock, the green immortal 
 Shamrock I the chosen leaf of Bard and Chief, old Erin's native Shamrock ! 
 The shining virtues of St. Patrick's life were more powerful and persuasive 
 arguments, than the most elegant discourses. It would be an endless tasrk 
 to enumerate all the labours and fatigues, he underwent in the course of 
 sixty-one years, for the glory of God and the salvation of souls ; he travel- 
 led through all the Provinces of Ireland, rooting-up vice, and planting vir- 
 tue, wherever he went. Like another Elias, he burned with zeal for the 
 Lord God of Hosts, (3 Kings, c. xix. v. 10), so that he might truely say with 
 the Iloyal Prophet, psalm the sixty-eight, the zeal of thy House has eaten 
 me up, and has made nie pine away. Nothing gave him more pain, than to 
 see the Great God offended, and nothing gave him more pleasure than to 
 see him loved, praised and adored. He bewailed the gross errors of Idolatry 
 and Superstition, in which he found thousands of the inhabitants of Ireland 
 enveloped at the time of his arrival, but glory be to God, his sorrow was soon 
 changed into inexpressible joy. For the most obdurate hearts were mollified 
 by his instructions, the greatest sinners cast themselves at his feet, and 
 began to deplore their past crimes, with tears of bitterness, and numberless 
 multitudes cried out for Baptism, and embraced the Roman Catholic and 
 Apostolic Faith, which Saint Patrick announced to them. In short, he dis- 
 persed the darkness of Infidelity, by the brilliant rays of his sanctity, and 
 by the ardour of zeal and piety, he made truth and virtue triumph over 
 error and immorality. It is recoriled of him that he founded over three 
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 number of Bishops, and established seven hundred religions houses, wherein 
 thousands of the faithful devoted tliemselves entirely to the divine service, 
 and aspired to the very summit of Christian perfection, by a regular obser- 
 vance of the three Evangelical Counsels, in so much that this land was de- 
 servedly styled, the Island of Saints, when Saint Patrick Hnished his glorious 
 career, in the hundred and twentieth year of liis age, and in the four hund- 
 red and ninety-third year of Our Lord. During the three succeeding cen- 
 turies, whilst the greater part of Europe was overspread with inundations of 
 ■ Pagan Goths and V^andals, the youth of all parts of Europe Hocked into Ire- 
 land to acquire learning, piety and virtue, because Ireland was then a nur- 
 sery of piety, a school of virtue, and a seminary of learning, and abounded 
 with a long train of illustrious Saints, who derive 1 the streams of their sanc- 
 tity from the great Apostle Saint Patrick, and who, like so many shining 
 stars in the firmament of Heaveu, illumined several parts of the Continent, 
 with the light of the Gospel, and the splendor ot' their virtues. It is true in- 
 deed, that in the ninth century, Ireland was, in her turn, infestel by suc- 
 cessive swarms of heathen Danish Barbarians, who made her feel the griev- 
 ances, tliat followed the invasion of the sanctuary and the demolition of the 
 Roman Empire in other countries, yet it is glorious for her, that she con- 
 quered these Danish enemies, and banished them from her shores. But 
 notwithstanding all the various resolutions of nature,al! the dial)olicai per- 
 secutions of Henry the Eighth, Queen Elizabeth, and Cromwell, all the un- 
 just laws enacted directly, in order to extinguish the Catholic Faith of the 
 Irish people, a price being awarded for the head of a Catholic Priest, that of 
 a Catholic School master, and the Catholic child authorized to inherit his 
 father's property, if he would renounce his faith ; in spite of all these perse- 
 cutions, unjust laws, the self same Holy Roman Catholic Religion, which 
 was planted in Ireland by Saint Patrick, thirteen hundred and thirty-eight 
 years ago, and which was uniformly professed by our pious Ancestors, ever 
 since, lias been carefully transmitted down to the people of Ireland, and 
 their descendants, whole and entire, unchanged and uncorrupted.and is still 
 professed by them, in all its pristine beauty, and primitive purity. You re- 
 member how Divine Providence made use of the very enemies of the Chris- 
 tian Religion, the Romans, as instruments, for its ra|)id diilusion all over 
 the then vast Roman Empire, notwithstanding that millions of Christians 
 suflered martyrdom, under the most cruel and inhuman forms that malice 
 could invent, amidst the savage vociferations and cries in the Amphitheater, 
 the Christians to the Lions, wh.ch made Tartulian the defender of the faith 
 reproacli the Roman tyrants, and tell them : it is vain and useless for you, 
 to dilate in massacreing and putting tlie Christians to death ; n jtxs^ithstand- 
 ing all these persecutions, the Apostles and their successors followed the Ro- 
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 that the Christiana were everywhere ; why said Testulian, to the Roma 
 Emperors, do you not pferceive that the Christians are everywhere ? why, 
 they are in your armies; they are your Generals, your Officers, and your 
 soldiers ; they are in the Forum, and in your very palaces ; so this is the 
 reason why the Christian Religion spread so sapidly all over the world, as 
 the text of the Acts of the Apostles affirms ; their sound went into the whole 
 Earth' and their words reached the remotest corners of the known World, 
 the Lord espousing the doctrine they preached, as his own cause, and con- 
 firming with it numberless miracles, so did the Irish Missionary, the Irish 
 Catholic Emigrant, the Exile of Erin follow the English, the enemies of 
 their creed, their race and their language, by sea and by land, from the ris- 
 ing to the setting of the run, for oou know it is said, the sun never sets on 
 the vast English possessions, and everywhere the Irish Catholic glories in 
 the faith of Saint Patricd and the iramortal shamrock that he blessed. Are 
 we not then, my Brethren, highly indebted to the goodness of God, for hav- 
 ing in his great mercy called our Ancestors from the darkness of Infidelity 
 to the Avonderful light of faith, by the Ministry of Saint Patrick, and fo 
 having extended the same heavenly gift to us, by the Ministry of his su • 
 cessors and descendants, in preference to so many thousands and hundreds 
 of thousands, in other countries, from whom the true faith of Christ has 
 been withdrawn by a just judgement, and transplanted elsewhere ? What has 
 become of the faith, in Palestine, that Holy Land, which once heard the 
 Angels sing: Glory to God, in the highest, and on Earth, peace to Men 
 of Good Will ? Where Christianity first began to dawn ? 
 Where the Saviour of the World was born ? lived 
 thirty-three years ; during three of which He laboured, with His Apostles, 
 preaching the kingdom of God, died on the Cross, and was buried ? All 
 the powers of the earth were unable to recover the Holy Land; all the 
 great efforts of Kings, Popes, Bishops, Priests, and millions of courageous 
 Christian Crusaders, after nine different Crusades, some composed of two 
 hundred thousand brave soldiers, as that under Conrad of Germany and 
 Louis the younger of France, were all inadequate to recuperate the Holy 
 Sepulchre ; even the Holy King, Saint Louis of France, failed in his great 
 expedition, and died in that foreign land ? What has become of the faith 
 in Africa, that Church, once of such great renown, in the by-gone days of 
 her Augustins, her Cyprians, and her numerous other celebrated holy Doc- 
 tors? Why, Africa almost live? only in song ; and the Church gives in our 
 days the title of these once celebrated Sees, to Bishops who have no title, 
 under the title : In partibus Infidelium — in the countries of the Infidels — 
 to revive these ancient Sees ; and, as I said, which live only in song. What 
 has become of the faith in those vast regions whose numerous inhabitants 
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 such aa the Indies ? I read several years ago in the Annals of the Propa- 
 gation of the Faith, tliat an old woman, about ninety years of age, hap- 
 pened to see a strange Missionary saying Mass, one day, in the place she 
 lived ; she became (luite astonished, and watched every ceremony the 
 Priest performed during Mass ; so she said to herself, these are the same 
 ceremonies our old Missionaries were wont to go through ; she saw the 
 Priest after Mass, and told him that there were others, in the next settle- 
 ment, that belonged to his religion. What has become of Christianity in 
 Denmark, Sweden and Norway, where the very Kings suffered martyrdom 
 for the Faith ? Wl)at dreadful ravages did not the heresy of Luther cause 
 in Germany? That of Calvin in Switzerland? What a pitiful spectacle 
 did not England give to the world of her Catholicity, when Cardinal Pole, 
 in the reign of King Philippe, was empowered and sent by the Pope to 
 raise from the sentence of excommunication the English Parliament and 
 People, on account of their rebellion against the Church ? May God pre- 
 serve us from such Catholicity as this — Catholic one day and Protestant 
 the r/jxt ! The Irish people have their own faults, and where is the nation 
 that has not its own ? He is lifeless that is faultless ; and so it is with 
 nations. But be it said : the faith of the Irish people is their everlasting 
 glory. Faith is a gift of God. (Saint Paul to the Ephesians, chapter the 
 second, verse the eighth.) It is something divine, something strong, some- 
 thing active, something that can move mountains ; their faith is the rich 
 gift, no.n fecit taliter omul Nationi. Oh I Got! did not confer the same favour 
 on every nation ; He gives it to whom He wishes, and in the measure He 
 wishes ; it contains numbers abundance, yes, talents, and this is the rea- 
 son why the faith of the Irish is so strong, so pure, so respectful, so gener- 
 ous, active, and full of good works, and like the good seed in the gospel 
 that fell on the good ground and yielded a hundredfold. The Irish people 
 never denied their faith ; no heresiarchs, infidels. Atheists, Deists or 
 Materialists ever sprang from the Irish Catholic people ; you might as well 
 look for a serpent in Ireland as for one of these there ; and you know Saint 
 Patrick banished all these reptiles from Ireland, as you see him repre. 
 sented with the serpents under his feet in his portraits : and as for Pro- 
 testants in Ireland, they have all been imported merchandises, by Cromwell 
 and others, by invasion and force. Now, do you wish to soar up high into 
 any rank or dignity in the social order? You will be certain to see an 
 Irishman there to elicit your admiration. Do you wish to enter into the 
 battlefield? You will perceive that the French are not the only people 
 that have their chevalier Bayard, without fear or reproach. Who was 
 Brian Born? Ilemember the glories of Brian the Brave, the great Monarch 
 of Ireland, who was killed at the battle of Clontarf, in the beginning of the 
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 engagements : the star of the field, which so often has pour'd its beams on 
 the battle, is now set, but not forgotten. And who was Malachi ? Let 
 Erin remember the days of old, when Malachi wore the colar of gold, which 
 he won from the proud invader ; when her Kings, with standard of green 
 unfurled, led the Red-Branch-Knights to danger, and thus sighing, look 
 through t}ie waves of time for the long faded glories they cover. Where 
 will you find at the Bar or in Parlipment the peers of Gurran, Grattan, 
 Daniel O'Connell, Henry or O'Cot.nor, and numberless others ? In the 
 Pulpit, the number of celebrated Irish orators is legion ; let us only cast a 
 glance at a few of the most modern in our own days : who, I ask you, was 
 McCarty ? that celebrated Irish orator, who preached before the Court of 
 Louis the Eighteenth in France; and who was our own immortal Tom 
 Burke, whom Pope Pius the Ninth styled the Prince of Orators? and who 
 had merited by his extraordinary talent and most profound science a title 
 80 great and which very lew in the whole world have been able to 
 acquire, I mean, not the title of Doctor of Divinity, but the great- 
 est and highest : Master in divinity ; it would be an endless task to nu- 
 merate all the various celebrities that Ireland has shown on the theater of 
 the world. Have we not then reason to thank, praise and glorify the holy 
 name of the Lord, for this particular blessing, this singular favor, this spe- 
 cial protection, and visible interfluence of His Divine Providence in our re- 
 gard ? Should we not as the Apostle recommends in the words of my text, 
 gratefully remember our Prelates, who have spoken the word of God to us ? 
 Should Ave not be steadfast in following their faith? And takmg care not 
 to be led i.way with various and strange doctrines? Should we not be 
 armed against all novelty in religion, and guard against the baneful influ- 
 ence of those dani2;erous principles, which the old philosophers by their 
 writings, and the modern by their poisonous discourses, and other unbe" 
 lievers, infidels and atheists have been and are actually spreading over 
 these and other countries of Europe, such as Valtaric, Jean Jacques Rous- 
 seau, Rainan, Straus, Tom Paine and Ingersol, denying by their blasphe- 
 mies, God, Heaven, hell, and all revealed truth : Now I ask you, what con- 
 fidence can you place in Men, or rather, what horror and aversion should 
 you not have for men who glory in following such a leader as Yaltaire, 
 whose great maxim was : lie, lie, and thee will always remain something; 
 what holy, moral teaching. Could you not think that those pretended 
 great philosophers, who thought that they enuntiatcd such great moral 
 truths, shoul not be ashamed to shake hands with Darwin, who pretended 
 to make us all believe that they were all desended from monkies ; and that 
 their grand-fathers and grand-mothers were really monkies ; what blessed 
 doctrines ! Pass not beyond the ancient bonds, which thy fathers have set, 
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 eight. Stand ye on the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, which is 
 the good way, and walk ye in it, and you shall find refreshment for your 
 souls : Jeremiah, chapter the sixth, verse the sixteenth. Ask thy Father, 
 and he will declare to thee, thy Elders, and they will tell thee : Deutero- 
 nomy, chapter the thirty-second, verse the seventh ; For there is a way that 
 seemeth just to a man, but the ends thereof lead to death : Proverbs, chapt- 
 er the fourteenth, verse the twelth : and again Christ mentions us in the 
 Gospel, to beware of false Prophets, who make their appearance in the 
 clothing of sheep, but inwardly are ravenous wolves, who come not to feed, 
 but only to fleece and destroy the flock ; nay, Saint Paul does not hesitate 
 to say : Galatians, chapter the first, verse the eight : that although an angel 
 should descend from Heaven, to preach up any new doctrine, contrary to 
 the ancient faith, once delivered to the saints, Ave ought to look upon him 
 as an anathema ; A.way then with these irreligious discoursea, pernicious 
 maxim?, unchristian ideas, unsanctified notions, and noxious taxes, which 
 the enemy is endeavouring to sow over the good seed. Let us live up to 
 the dictates and duties of our holy religion, and show the purity of our 
 faith, by the purity of our morals, and by a strict observance of the com- 
 mandments of God and of his Holy Church. Let us not forget the example 
 of the glorious Saint Patrick, but endeavour to render ourselves worthy of 
 his powerful patronage and intercession, by a faithful imitation of his 
 humility, resignation to the holy will of Divine Providence, his charity, 
 zeal and piety. God is mercihil and his mercies are above all his works ; 
 he pardons the sinner time and again, but there is a time when mercy and 
 justice meet, and (.im] punishes the sinner who has abused his patience and 
 longanimity ; and so it is with nations. God is merciful and l>ears their 
 wickedness most patiently, but there comes a day of reckoning even for 
 nations as well as individuals. How many celebrated empires, kingdoms 
 and nations do we not read of in history, which have been swept ott'the face 
 of the earth on account of their tyranies, persecutions and abominations 
 crying to Heaven for vengence ? what has become of the once vast flourish- 
 ing Roman empire, which comprised the third part of the known world ? 
 Where are now so many other ancient Dymasties, of which there is not 
 even a trace to be found, others which live only in song; and others which 
 were once vast and powerful kingdoms, but now occupy but the third rank 
 amongst the nations, such as Spain, once so vast and powerful nation? 
 Oh ! ihe depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge, 
 of God, how incomprehensible are his judgements, and how unsearchable 
 are his ways! Saint Paul to the Corinthians, chapter the eleventh, he 
 choses the Wreck of the World, to compound the strong ; deposuit potentes 
 de se de, et exalt avit humiles; he deposeth the powerful from their seats, 
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 Saint Luke, chapter the first, verse the fifty-second. Now allow me to make 
 a little degression, but still in connection with my subject ; you recollect 
 what sacred history tells us about the great power of the patriarch Jos3ph» 
 in Egypt, the King gave him all power, and when the people came to the 
 King asking provisions he sent them to Joseph, saying, go to Joseph, and 
 <lo whatsoever he orders ; he brought his father Jacob and his family, his 
 brothers and all their families from Ghana and down to Egypt, they 
 amounted to about seventy persons ; they prospered and multiplied exceed- 
 ingly, and formed after some time six hundred thousand inhabitants. But 
 Joseph died, and a new King succeeded the former ; in this King's reign, 
 the Hebrews were treated as slaves, just like those of the Southern States, 
 before the war ; and being so numerous, the Egyptians became afraid of 
 them ; and the King enacted a law, by which, all the male children of the 
 Hebrews, were to be put to death, by drowning them in the river; he even 
 had the mid-wives come to receive his orders; to kill all the male children, 
 but to save the females ; as his orders were not executed punctually, he 
 sent again for the mid- wives ; and said to them, what does this mean, that 
 you do not execute my orders ? these mid-wives names were Saphora and 
 Phua, and they were good and feared God. So they told the King that the 
 Hebrew women, were not like the Egyptian women, because as soon as we 
 arrive there, they are already delivered ; so it happened that there was a 
 Hebrew man of the House of Leves, who took a wife of his own kindred, and 
 she bore him a son, and seeing him a gooai^ jhild, the mother hid him 
 three months, and when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket 
 made of bulrushes, and daubed with slime and pitch, and put the little babe 
 therein, and laid it by the sedges, by the river's brink, his sister standing a 
 far off, and taking notice what would be done ; and behold the daughter of 
 King Pharoah came down to wash herself in the river, and her maids walked 
 by the river's brink ; and when she saw the basket in the sedges, she sent 
 one of her maids for it, and when it was brought, she opened it, and seeing 
 within it, an infant crying, having compassion on the poor, dear lovely 
 ^ittle creature, she said : this is one of the babes of the Hebrews, and the 
 child's sister said to her ! shall I go and call thee a Hebrew woman to nurse 
 the babe ? she answered, go ; the maid went, and called her mother, and 
 Pharoah's daughter said to her, take this child and nurse him for me ; I will 
 give give thee thy wages ; the woman took and nursed the child, and when 
 he was grown up, she delivered him to Pharoah's daughter, and she adopted 
 him for a son, and she called him Moses, saying : because I took him out of 
 water. Some days after when Moses was grown up, he went out to his bre- 
 thern, and saw their afiliction, and an Egj'ptian striking one of his brethern, 
 and when he had looked about this way and that way, and saw no one there, 
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 sand, and going out the next day, he saw two Hebrews quarrelling, and he 
 said to him that did the wrong, why strikest thou thy neighbour ? But he 
 answered : who had appointed thee Prince and Judge over us ? Wilt thou 
 kill me, as thou didst yesterday kill the Egyptian? Moses feared, and said, 
 how has this come to be known, and Pharoah heard of this word, and sought 
 to kill Moses, but he fled from his siglit, and abode in the land of Madian, 
 and he sat down by a well ; and the Priest of Madian had seven daughters, 
 who came to draw water, a:^d when the troughs were filled desired to water 
 their father's Hocks, and the • 'hepherds came, drove them away, and Moses 
 arose, and defended tiie maidf., watered their sheep ; and when they returned 
 to Eagud, their father, he taid to them, why are you come sooner than 
 usual? They answered a man of Kgypt delivered us from. the Shepherds, 
 and he drew water also with us, and he gave the sheep to drink. But he 
 said, where is he? Why have you let the man go ? Call him that he may 
 eat bread. And Moses swore tha he would dwell with him. And he took 
 Sephona, his daughter, to wife ; and she bore him a son, whom he called 
 Gersam, saying : I have been a stranger in a foreign country, and she bore 
 him another, whom he called Eliezer, saying : for the God of my father my 
 helper hath delivered me out of the hand of Pharoah. Moses fed the 
 sheep of Jethro, his father-in-law, the Priest of Madian, and drove 
 the flock to the inner part of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, 
 Horeb ; and the Lord appeared to him in a flame of tire out of the bush 
 and he saw that the bush was on lira and was not burnt, and Moses said : 
 I will go and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. And when 
 the Lord saw that he went forward to see, he called to him out of the midst 
 of the bush, and said : Moses, Moses, and he answered here I am ; and he 
 said to him, come not nigh, hither; put oft' the shoes from thy feet, for 
 the place whereon thou standest, is holy ground, and he said to him : I am 
 the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God 
 of Jacob. Moses hid his face, for he durst not look at God ; and the Lord 
 said to him : I have seen the allliction of my people in Egypt ; I have 
 heard their cry, because of the rigor them that are over the works, and 
 know' g their Borrow, I am come down to deliver them out of that land 
 into a good and spacious land tliat flows with milk and honey. But come, 
 1 will send thee to Pharas, that thou may est bring forth my people, the 
 children of Israel, out of Egypt. Admire here, dear brethren, with me, the 
 ■wonderful ways of God, in the person of this little babe, exposed in the 
 sedges on the river's brink to perish and be drowned, watched by his sister, 
 ■adopted by King Phorao's daughter, rescued from the cruelty of Pharao, 
 who sought to kill him, selected by God to be the instrument to deliver his 
 chosen people, the Israelites, to punish Pharao and all his people, to accom- 
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 him, the greatest miracles ever kiK.wn in the Old or New World, or ever 
 performed either by prophet, saint or apostle. After the hist of the ten 
 plagues of Egypt, I'harao consented to let the Israelites go and sacrifice t& 
 Gotl in the desert, bnt he repented soon after for having allowed them to 
 depart, so he pursued them with all hispeople,8ix hundred chosen chariots 
 and all the cliariots that were in Egypt, and the captains and his whole 
 army, and the l^ord said to Moses : I^ift thou ui) thy rod, and stretch forth 
 thy hand over the sea and divide it, that the children of Israel may go 
 through the mi-lsi of the sea on dry ground, and the water was ns a wall on 
 their right liand and on their left, and the Egyptians pursuing, went in 
 after them, and all I'liarao's horse, his chariots and horsemen and army 
 through the midst of the sea ; and uow the morning watch was come, and 
 behold the Lord looking upon the Egyptain army through the pillar which 
 was of fire for the Israelites and a black and dark cloud for the Egyptians, 
 slew their host and overthrew the wheels of the chariot, and they were 
 carried into the deep, and the Egyptains said : Let us llee from Israel, for 
 the Lord is fighting for them against us. And the Lord said to Moses : 
 Stretch forth thy hand over the soa ; it retiarned at the lirst break of day to 
 its forinor place, and as the Egyptians were lleeing away the waters came 
 upon them, and the Lord shut them up in the midst of the waves, and the 
 waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsen>en and the army 
 of Pharo, who had come into the sea after them ; neither did their so mucli 
 as one remain. But the children of Israel marched through the midst of 
 the sea upon dry land, and the waters were to tliem as a wall on the right 
 hand and on the left, and the Lord delivered Israel on that day out of the 
 liands of Pharao and the Egyptains by Closes, and the saw they dead carcases 
 of the Egyptians lying on the sea t«hore, and all the rest of his arm}' was 
 buried in the sea. Thus does (Tod punish the tyranies, persecutions and 
 abominations of wicked Kings and corrupt nations. (Jod also in his great 
 mercy warns and threatens kings and nations, as we read in Psalm the 
 second of King David. Why have the Gentiles raged and the people 
 devised vain things "/ The kings of the earth stood u)) and the princes met 
 together against the Lord and against His Christ. Let us break their bonds 
 asunder, and let us cast away their yoke from us. He that dwelleth in 
 Heaven shall laugh at them, and the Lord shall devide them. Then shall 
 He speak to them in His anger, and trouble hiiu in His rage. Thou shalt 
 rule them with a rod of iron, and shalt break them in pieces, like a potter's 
 vessel. And now, O, ye kings ! understand, receive instructions, you that 
 judge the earth ; serve ye the Lord with fear, and rejoice unto Him with 
 trembling, embrace discipline, lest at any time the Lord be angry and you 
 perish from the just way. When His wrath shall be kindled in a short 
 time, blesed are all they that shall trust in Him. But, hark ! what do I 
 
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 hear? A strong rush i tig sound echoing fervent prayers, arising from the 
 loving hearts of milliona and millions of Irinh people, ascending like a sweet 
 incense before the throne of GckI, imploring in their fliitfering and distress 
 justice and happier days for Ireland '! and lo! what do I hoar in Heaven ? 
 the lanientatiot s and cries of thousands and thousamis of Holy Irish 
 Martyra, who shed their hlood on earth, for the faith of Christ, demanding 
 vengeance ; and wliat do I see umler the Altar, as in tlje Apocalypse, chapter 
 the sixth, verse the nintli? the souls of them that were slain for the Word of 
 <jtod, and for the testimony, which they held, and they cried out, with a 
 loud voice, saying : how long, Lord (holy and true) dost thou not judge, 
 and revenge our hlood, on them that dwell on Eartli ? And white rohes 
 were given to every one of them, and it was said to them, that they should 
 rest for a little time, till their fellow servants and their hrethorn, who are to 
 he slain even, as they, should he tilled. Can wo doubt. Dear Brethcrn, that 
 the glorious. St. I'alrick hears on this memorahle day the vows, the holy and 
 ardent aspirations of millions and millions of loving Irish hearts, whom he 
 begot in Christ Jesus during Ins Aposileship of sixty-one years in Ireland, 
 whom he loves so tenderly, and whose love for him, is also reprocal ? OI 
 glorious Saint I'atrick, whom we behold this day, with theeyes of I'aith, sur- 
 rounded with a halo of glory in Heaven, inebriated with a torrent of de- 
 lights, which the eye of man has not seen, nor the ear heard, nor the heart 
 of man conceived, doign, obtain through thy powerful intercession with 
 God, that thy people whom thou haso begotten in Christ, may always pre- 
 serve that Divine faith, which thou didst announce to them, that all oh 
 stacles to the free exercise thereof uuxy be removed, that they may be free 
 to adore, love and serve Cod, with the freedonj of the Gospel, and enjoy all 
 just and lawful rights, and in the days of Old, when under thy Pastoral care 
 and solicitude and as in the days of their own Kings whom God gave them. 
 O I God, who didst appear to Moses, thy servant, in a llame of lire out 
 of the burning burning bush, on Mount Horeb, and didst say to him : I have 
 seen the allhction of my people in Egypt. I have heard iheir cry, because 
 of tlie rigour of them that are over the works, and knowing their sorrijw, I 
 am come down to deliver them, out of the hand of the Egyptians, anil bring 
 them out of that land, into a good and spacious land that lloweth wiih milk 
 and honey, but come, I will send thee to I'haroah, that thou may est bring 
 forth, my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt, and who diil,»t perform 
 all these wonders, by opening the Sea, making its bed, dry land, and its 
 waters, as walls, on their hand and on their left, for a free passage for thy 
 people, and open the same Sea for graves, and burial ground for their ene- 
 mies, and cover them with its waters ; deign, O! great and powerful Lord, 
 ahow still to Kings and Nations, that thy hand is not shortened, that it is 
 by thee, that they reign and govern, and that thou canst yet save thy 
 
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 people, to whom thou didst send thy servant Saint Patrick, as an instru- 
 ment of thy Divine Mercy, to announce to them, the good doings of faith ; 
 grant O^Lord, that they may always preserve, follow thy Divine Faith ; be 
 free to adore, love and serve thee, the only true God, and enjoy all their just 
 and lawful rights of a people, based on thy eternal laws of justice, that being 
 thereby, thyJ[loving and faithful children of thy Church Militant on Earth, 
 they may be, one day, thy children and citizens with thy Saints of the 
 Church glorious and triumphant in Hesaven. 
 
 Melliinks, Brethern, that, to crown the celebration of this great feat>t, 
 wherein we gratefully acknowledge that special goodness and Mercy of God, 
 in calling our Ancestors to the admirable light of the true faith, through 
 Saint Patrick, and in deigning extend the same divine gift to us and all their 
 descendants '11 over the world, by his successors, and whilst filled with the 
 most heartfelt gratitude to God, we exclaim : when all thy mercies, most 
 bountiful God, our rising souls survey, transported with the niew, we are 
 lost in wonder, love, praise, and thanksgiving ; we cannot at the same time 
 forget all the trials, persecutions and glorious combats sustuiaed for the pre- 
 servation of our Faith, our Nationality, and our language, this day there- 
 fore, furnishes us tne occasion of giving expression to tell the noblest emo- 
 tions of our hearts, and we can conjure the sweet swift zephirs to bear the 
 echoes of our salutations, love and praise, in every tongue, and to every 
 clime, whither Divine Providence has directed the children of Erin to spread 
 the light of the Gospel, and lirst of all, to old Ireland, and in the language 
 in which Saint Patrick preached and converted the Irish Nation, let us ex- 
 claim : Erin Go Bragh ! in the English language, and to euery country, 
 where the English flag waves, whither the Irish Catholic carried the faith 
 of Saint Patrick. Ireland forever ! in the French language, to P'rance and 
 all her colonies, whence Saint Patrick came to convert the Irish Nation, 
 and to which he sent his Missionaries, and not forgetting the heroic Cana. 
 dians of the Dominion of Canada, the descendants of the illustrious, warlike 
 French Nation, Vive I'lrlanda! in the iLaiian language, to Rome, capital of 
 Italy, the head, the center, and the heart of Catholicity, whence Saint 
 Patrick was sent by Pope Celestine, to convert the Irish nation ; ai,d whose 
 lav,'ful successors, the Irish Episcopate, clergy and people, most lovingly ve- 
 nerate, as the successors of Saint Peter, and the visible representatives of 
 Jesus Christ : Ev. viva I'lrlanda ! in the Flemish language : Leve Jerland ! 
 in the (Jernian language, to Germany, perhaps some student of history, or 
 some traveller, might read of some ancient Irish Missionary who carried tlie 
 light of the Gospel tosomeof the German people, or he might learn of some 
 ancient Monastery, whose records tell of some Irish Saint who was its 
 founder ! Eslebe Hibernia ! in the Greek language, to Athens, the old city 
 of Greece, of which Denis, the Arapagite was made the first Biciiop by Saint 
 
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 Paul, who sat in the chair of the socrates and platos, and surpassed all these 
 wise men, and philosophers, by the sublimity of his Christian phi'.^dophy ; it 
 was he, who having seen the Blessed Virgin, said : that he would have taken 
 her for a Goddess, had he not known that she was a human being ; and who 
 exclaimed also v/lien Christ was dying on the Cross, that the Creator of the 
 World, must be sutlering, or the Universe is devolving from its axis! 
 
 ovpdviauolca T7]v (!o^av T?)f Il/fifpwaf dSr, 
 
 No one living under the penal laws in Ireland, ever touched the chord 
 of the Nation's heart, by bewailing her wrongs, injustices and sufferings, and 
 singing in his gem like melodies, her just aspirations for freemom, liberty 
 and right as our immortal Tom Moore, when he endeavours to tune hi» 
 Irish Harp ! 
 
 The Haip that once, through Tara's Halls, 
 
 The soul of nmsic shed, 
 
 Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls. 
 
 As if that soul were tied — 
 
 So sleeps the pride of former days, 
 
 80 glory's thrill is o'er ; 
 
 And hearts that once beat high for praise, 
 
 Now feel that pulse no more : 
 
 No more to Chiefs and ladies bright. 
 
 The Harp of Tara swells ; 
 
 The chord alone that breaks at night, • 
 
 Its tale of ruin tells. 
 
 Thus freedom now so seldom wakes. 
 
 The only throb she gives, 
 
 Is when some heart indignant breakes 
 
 To show that still she lives. 
 
 \ And again : 
 
 Though dark are our sorrows, 
 
 To-day we'll forget them, 
 
 And smile through our tears, like a sunbeam in showers ; 
 
 There never were hearts, if our Rulers would let them, 
 
 IMore formed to be grateful and blessed, than ours, 
 
 And just whon the chain has cease' '.o pain, 
 
 And hope has enreath'd it round with llowers. 
 
 There comes a new link, our spirits to sink, — 
 
 Oh ! the joy that we taste, like the light of the Poles, ' 
 
 Is a flash amia darkness, too brilliant to stay, 
 
 But though 't were the laat little spark in our souls, 
 
 We must light it up now, on Saint Patiick's Day. 
 
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 Contempt on the minion, you calls you disloyal, 
 Though fierce to your foe, to you friend you are true, 
 And the tribute most high, to a head that is Royal," 
 Is love from a heart, that loves liberty too, 
 While cowards who blight your fame, your right, 
 Would shrink from the blaze of the battle-array. 
 
 The standard of green 
 
 In front will be seen, 
 Oh ! my life on your faith 1 were you summon'd this minute, 
 You'd cast every bitter remembrance away, 
 And show what the arm of old Erin has in it, 
 When rous'd by the foe, on Saint Patrick's Day, 
 He loves the Green Isle, and his love is recorded. 
 In hearts that have sutfered too much to forget ; 
 And hope shall be crown'd, and attachment rewarded, 
 And Pyrin's gay jubilee shine-out yet. 
 
 The gem may be broke. 
 
 By many a streke. 
 But nothing can cloud its native ray ; 
 
 Each fragment will cast 
 
 A light to the last. 
 And thus Erin, my country, though broken thou art. 
 There's a lustra within thee, that ne'er will decay 
 A spirit which beams through each suffering part. 
 And now smiles at their pain on Saint Patrick's Day.