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Show ST. PATRICK. St. Patrick's Day has once more come and gone. The old enthusiasm clings to it still; it always will. He loved his fellow men better than his own life, for that love millions do him reverence, millions mill-ions always will. As the generations advance and recede, as education increases, and the innate selfishness self-ishness of men becomes more and more apparent, the splendor of the character, the devotion to duty, the self-abnegation of St. Patrick will more and more Impress the world and more and more reverence rever-ence will cling to his memory. Men worry their lives out over religion. In some countries they scourge them selves; in others, they suppress all their natural emotions; in others, they fling themselves them-selves out upon the fiery front edge of battle and die exultlngly, believing their sacrifice will win for themselves everlasting delights. The Master said: "Pure religion and undented, unde-nted, is to love God with all thy soul and, strength and mind, and thy neighbor as thyself." That was St. Patrick's religion. He never preached of wars, or of office, or of commercial gain; he assumed that he was but on a narrow isth mus that joined two eternities, that the walk from the one to the other was but a brief one at beat, and the petty or so-called great things of this life, that life itself, was not worth worrying over, but to wipe away tears and bind up wounded hearts made up his duty, and s,o humbly he walked until he sank into his final calm. But as though that life was made up of the pure radium of the spirit the light that emanated from him continued after he passed away and men still look up to it and are glad. Each coming generation halls it; to them it Is a beacon, as generations near their close thov turn back to watch where it shines; to them it is an immortal heliograph planted on the eternal heights, signalling the pathway that leads up to everlasting peace. The good he did can be measured only by those who can estimate what the regeneration of a half savage race is. He had the courage to go among them when fights were vastly more common than prayers; he subdued them by his perfect courage and the solicitude for their welfare that he manl tested, and his triumph was complete. He was but a man, but when he ank into his linal sleep, what he had been to them came upon them in tearful realization and they called him a Saint. The world took up the new title, and has called him Saint ever since and will continue to so hail his name until time shall give up its jour neys and in the east shall ascend the sun of a day that will -have no clouds and for which no night is to follow. |