Show ST. ST PATRICKS PATRICK'S RETURN Every True True rrue Irishman Irishman Believes the the Good Saint Will Wili Go Back to the Emerald Isle Islet Isle IsletA ANYONE A on the west coast of Ireland Iret Ireland Ire Ire- t land will wUl tell you that some day St. St Patrick is coming back to Ireland the land he loved No one says when that day will be be although there is reason rea rca son to believe that it will be on the day of the final Judgment of the world Whether or not his bis return is desir anle aDle depends altogether upon the point of view of th tha th theller teller eller of the prophecy If he be t gloomy pessimist pessimist pes pes- he is likely to remark emark that StPatrick St St. Patrick cant can't come soon enough God knows If It he be a cheerful optimist he be will wUl add and may that day be far although twill be a good day whenever whenever when when- ever it comes comes' Ireland has a personal regard for St. St Patrick probably equaled by no other country in the world In Its rela cia tion to a patron aint and so it that tue return of ot the missionary missionary mis mis- to the Isle has had a his his- oric bearing upon certain of its characteristics char char- and events so that even the passing of the home rule bill has hasmet hasmet hasmet met in certain remote districts of Ir Ireland Ireland Ire Ire- land with the turn of phrase If St. St Patrick came back now the pleased man hed he'd be And inde indeed d. d if It St. St Patrick were to return to the island to which he came cam so many centuries ago he would fin some marvelous changes wrought b bj the early years of the twentieth cen century cen cen- tury For Ireland has been passing through a peaceful revolution and it its ita results would be even more apparent to a watchful patron than they would be to the average observer observe The revival of the Irish language has a history of ot tremendous interest to the student of ot statesmanship The Th system of summer schools for students students stu dents in the districts where the Irish language was still a living language has been strikingly successful and has done much to break down the sectionalism section section- of Ireland Although the passage of the home rule bill through the commons Is nominally nominally nomi nomi- nally the most important event in the history of Ireland In the last two decades decades dec ades nevertheless the student of ot Irish history recognizes that the measure Is merely the culmination of ot Irelands Ireland's struggle to to her na na- na And should St. St Patrick come back to his island he would find that Ireland had by remembering The da days s 's of old Ere her faithless sons betrayed her When Malachi wore the collar of gold won back from her past the circlet 01 ol olner ner ncr glory and is on the high road to the throne ot 01 the national independence dence and Integrity that her children no matter where scattered have held I as the ideal of their country's state |