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Show IIICI.IMI AMI .ST. I'ATIilCi;. Tiiil It HI. Patrick 'a day. Ily many It It calh-d the I7lh or !nlauJ; aud by oUiera the Irlili I'uurth of July. At all nvoiitt, It la a day almoat aa marked Intha United ritalca aa any uatlonil holiday. I'eraona of other nativity than that of Irehtu I are familiar with thlt date, mid lftanklng ou any oc-currencu oc-currencu which might have happened onornbout thla time, generally taak or It aa occurring about r)t. l'alrlck'a day. Probably there la not In thehlatory of primitive Chrltllanlly auy character about whom to much mUconceplloii nnd luliluformallon vilata at the r. am coninunly called tjt. Patrick. There la only one fact oomvrulug hlai that nil mithorltlcangreuon, aud that la that lAi W4i nit him lu Ireland. The prenn lerauro of evIJenco goin to alow that he waa a mitlvu of lVanoo, and that hit blrln-plaoe blrln-plaoe waa Ili.il'-ugno-hy-the-Hei, Many reapectoble wrltert oonloud llwt hunrataawthe light lu Hootl.inl, Ida blrlhplioo liolnj ueir the alteof Ihu nialtriiDuitihtrioii, at the imuth of th ('lydv. There la till a place near Iherooallwl Kil,nlrlck, an J It la tui-poaodltwmaiotllol, tui-poaodltwmaiotllol, from balug tho place or hla I, Irih. .it f thla weru to, tho "Kll" wuull lunlly be relaluul. nnleaalieliad louiide1 nrhuriili thoru during hla mWlon. "Kll" l Hw (liollo term for a primitive church et tabllahment founded on the uumuiuul-ty uumuiuul-ty ayateni. Here la where the mlupprehenalou provalla relating la Patrick' ml.iloii. It la coiuu.iiiiy eute.1 that hu wna cummlaaloued by Pohi C'uleallno tu preach the (loapcl In lrelind, yet not a line or document of any kind rxlU to how thla waa the can. What la allll etraoger la, that In Rime, no Church ellflcuhai ever Ixren reared lo the memory of HI. Patrick, Thla alma Ii convincing proof that he waa never recenlifd at a ll m-lhni!i.liiurr;lacu m-lhni!i.liiurr;lacu nil the patron anlnbj of laxthna In Kurope have churchc In Itima called after them. Tin. It nan Aithnltlea, tralnt that thla Incident gave lilitorlana a ground for nr.ilnllng Patrlck'a llannnlam, turiwl their attention lo lull Hug churih, aud there Ja one no lu pro-cet pro-cet of couttructloit. I'atrlck'a ayatain of preaching waa dirierenl from the ordinary method adopleitby lha Itinnn ptleata. Ilia plan wia lort'a.bllt't lltllt colonlea nr mnniunllleaof brethren wherever the local environment favonil It. Tbeae communltlet were not relllloiialy lao-laled, lao-laled, lulhewnaeof the medlrcval or modern monaatery. lu It, of vuurac, he etabllhl a K'hool of learning and theology, In harm my with the Indua-try Indua-try and Irale whhh ale formed part of hit ayitcm. Illaepoclalalni waa to lama tha atubli jrn farorlty of the fierce (.'elllochlaftilua, who mile war on each other oil the allghto.t pretext, lilt wc.-oee waa alngularir rrmtrkibte. Hrlu and all the early hlatorlaneof the llrlllah talauda agree ou thla joint. They alto ajree that the eeh ila eatali-ll.hclhy eatali-ll.hclhy Patrick an I the mlMlonarlrt pro-luceit by them were fartJptrlor to the Ibmlah. It lacerUIn lliat la erlrlt of nationality and race unity waa pn-iluced pn-iluced lu Ireland by tho Patrick aitem. ai-tem. When the Dine an I Northman North-man Invaded Ircllnl In the eighth anil ninth ovntiirlea the (Vita united In driving them out. The Dane were firmly rnlrchched. Dublin, Limerick and Walerford were founded by Dauea, and they were the moat Important cltlea lu Ireland.' That the Ilooian authority did not then prevail In Ireland Ian fact wall an. tallied by the "bull" glveu by Adrlau the 4th to lltnry It of I'.ng-land, I'.ng-land, empowering him to tuljugato IrvUhdand reduce It to tha Itinilah Mlh. Thla Heury did, or attempted, In 1172, Thehlatory or Inland horn 1172 to tbolttlorrutllonehowt that the aUr-Iglnal aUr-Iglnal Irlah were never recognlxel aa Itomanlita. Wherever the Anglo-Itinian Anglo-Itinian riupremacy prevailed no (rtou oflrlahblrtlioriuirentage could hold any of the church benefice, nor could any of the I (lata prleata Inherit property In the way of beijueata rroui rellglout jtaraona. The tawt made by the Angloltoiiianlata nt-niaven worw lhanthoaoaubirueiilly made by tho ProlvaUtitt from 1701 to 1770. One tw which In eubatanco wat, that If a.dlaputa occurred between an ADglo-Iloman atiJ'au Irlah (Jhriatiau, and the latter aa klllei lu Ihu trouble, all that waa neconary waa to prove at the lu'Ui'"t that '.he dead laxly wot that of au Irlah (,'hrhtlan, to relievo the murderer or the charge. Thlt will llluilrate the nature or the whole lytteni. After the Iteformatlon, the Anglo-Itomina Anglo-Itomina who would not adopt Proteat-antlam Proteat-antlam were trcatedjuitaathey tnavtwl th.iChrl.tlaiitMta. Uptlll thla time notawordevrr emanatid from Home agalnat tho conduct or Itt agenU and nlllra In Ireland. Tlien It l-gau to howl, aud to make capital of the Pro-titaut Pro-titaut criminal rode, though lu own jicnallawa a few centurliw provtotia weru worae, Ireland uweN nothing to Home, but la Indebted to her for all her truublea. Henry VIII or Kngland wna not a verytavory lartouage, jet Knghnd owet to him her liideiamdeure of Home, Much may be nald agalnat Parnell, but If through him Independ-enceof Independ-enceof Itomo could be obtained, he would Im Iho Henry or Irelaud. And until Ireland la Independent of Home aa woll aa Kugland, alio can never bo prnapvruui, happy, nor iunnil. About two yean ago, a very learned Jew, the Itabbl Itoaeuthalof t'lilcago, ibllalied an article In Menoruh, n Jew-tali Jew-tali monthly, on HI. Patrick. In It ho endeavored to ehew that tho fauiotia mlaalonary wai a convcrtiat Hebrew Christian. He undoubtedly made tome good lnta. lie ahowial that Patrl-clut Patrl-clut waa not Ucrlvtd from Ihu Ito-man Ito-man word In the woof HI. Patrick. He allowed that u wordcxlated In I loll lo-ll re w from which tho name wna derived. de-rived. Ho ahowrd from Incident In the life of the Halut that tho latter waa ntr.vlor by occupation, but that hu had nvlded lu Home for aome time, It la to be regretted that learned men do notdwelln little more on the life nnd work of that very great and good mill Mb Patrick. Now the auljtct la handled entirely by a act of Ignorant Irlah prlttla, wlioilon'l undertt'iiidtho mther-longuo of their own country, who are nntoonvemnt with Irl.lt lilt-lory, lilt-lory, and who travel In Ihottereotyped pith laUoutfir Ihotn by aurh vlllnlu-out vlllnlu-out lti.il in triluoara of Irelaud, aa (leralJua Cambrnuala, the Iloman Hlaliop, and I'lhUrton, the lay Iloman hlatorliin. Tho young man of Ireland ahould honor St. Patrick, but they ihoull approach ap-proach the ttudy of hit llfu from a IHirely Irli'i ttanlpjlnt. HU Patrick built it nitlon InJtpauJoiit or 11 into, and he preichcd a Uhrlallaully aa rorel,ll ti Itii.l- 1 I' wa.'o llruldlaiu, |
