| Show ST patricks PA RETURN every true irishman lehman Ir believe believes the go good id saint WIH will go sick to the emerald ISIL on the west coast ot of re aland land will tell you that some borne day st patrick la Is coming bach to ireland tho the land he be loved no ono one says when wilto that day will bo be although there tit 1 rea on son to believe that it will be on oll the day of the final judgment of t the be world whether or not his return ie to desirable depend depends altogether upon the point of view of the teller ot of toe the prophecy it if he bo be a gloomy pee he Is likely to remark that c patrick cant come soon enough god knows known if ho be bo be a cheerful optimist he will add and may that day be tar far although will bo be a good day when ever it comm ireland hi a per ional ki regard for st patrick probably equaled by no other country in tho world lu ju its rel rela tiou to a patron saint and 50 it la Is that tho the prophesied return of the thel ml to the lale isle hae has had a historic bearing upon certain of it its s char acte and events so that even the passing ot of the home rule bill has bell met in certain remote districts of ireland with ith the turn ot of phrase it st SL patrick came back now the pleaded ked man hed be and indeed if st patrick were to return to the inland island to which he came so many centuries ago he would find some marvelous changes wrought by the early years of tho twentieth cen tury for ireland has been passing through a peaceful revolution and its it results would bo be even more apparent to a watchful atch ful patron than they would be to the average observer the revival of the irish language has a history of or tremendous interest to the student of statesmanship the system of summer schools for stu dents in the districts whore where the irish language was still a living language has been strikingly successful and has done much to break down the section allam of ireland although the passage of the home rule bill through the commons Is nominally the most moat important event in the history of ireland in the last two decades nevertheless the student of irish history recognizes that the measure Is merely the culmination of irelands struggle to maintain her na 1181 tiona lity and should ct UL patrick come back to bis his island be he would find that ireland had by remembering the day days of old ere her faithless sons eons betrayed her N hen malachi wore the collar oc of gold won back from her past the circlet of her ber glory andi is on the high road to the throne of tho national dence and integrity that her cn children ildren no matter where scattered have held as the ideal of their stale state |
