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Show 1 i THE CHURCH BUILDERS OF THE ! j WORLD. Speaking in England recently, the Bishop of Aihonry said: "Though I speak in this English city, enc.r Jed by : those Yorkshie hills, still I feel I am ; no stranger rre: for I speak to many i of our own people, in whose veins courses the eape Irieh blood, in whose ( bosoms throb the eame Irish pulse, in ' j whose souls tlA old faith is warm, and in whoe hearti the old love id all aglow. Speaking to our Irieh people, I ask you to be fever mindful of the fact that those of cur race and land and b ood have b-ei the church builders of tho world. Every gorge of Italy's Ap-, Ap-, pen. nee, every valley by the Swiss i lakes, the vast tlains of Germany, the vineyards of Fiance, etill sho-w the ' trace of the Irish churches, still bear ; the footprints of Irish Saints. What our fathers did in the bid world in the far-off centuries, that our brethren are doing in the new world in the light of the present day. I must only point ! w here I love to linger, i "Across the great Atlantic, amidct the statts of the stare and stripes, beyond be-yond the waves of the Indian ocean in the rising .mpire of the eoutnern cross; there' in the leading dty of America, by the banks of the Tludson. on the old Manhattan shore, watching over the waters of. New York, r.se in wlhtest marble the twin towers of the greatest church in America; and there in the capital of Victoria, on the beautiful beau-tiful bav, crowned by the fairest city in 1 the south, the noble Cathedral of Melbourne Mel-bourne has just arisen, the pride of the j whole Australian world; and both have 1 been erected by Irish energy, and both have been raieed by Irish hands and both are dedicated to our own St. Patrick, Pat-rick, who thus watches over our race and protects .,ur people, from the land of the glorious Orient to the land cf the , , setting sun." |