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Show j j Dr. Parkhurst on the Irish Race. J m Kev. Dr. Charles II. Farkhurst preached Sun- I day in the Madison Square Presbyterian church, I 1! Xew York City, upon "The Light That Shone from I Inland." It was really a emiou on St. 1'atrick, I j;C or St. Patricius, as the doctor preferred to call him. - J w ''The early religious life of Ireland," said Dr. I 1m Parkhurst. "has latterly had a good deal of studious 1 attention devoted to it, and if there were a better I '.J inidersanding of some of the events that occurred I k in those old days, there would be induced among I . " those of us who are non-Irish a juster and kindlier. . e.-timate of the Irish people. Some such knowledge '' Jf would do much to abate the repugnance with which tl In land and its people are so generally regarded, p "To be able to appreciate what ihey were will I a. do much to promote our sympathy with them in the I f' condition of poverty and general debility to which j ,3 they have for a variety of causes been since re- !n uced. As things are, ihe world at large does not j P admire Irishmen, has no use for Irishmen. They I are the leto noir of the English, the execration of I c. the Scotch, and as for the American, what he knows I I of Ireland he has gained for the most parr by rcad- I 0 ing English books. "It seems to me that, it is almost to the disgrace ,n f what we call our educated intelligence that go e little is known in regard, esnoe?.-illy the early re- ( ; 1 lijrious life and early missionarv life of Irchnid ! ' I have aked a good many fairly educated people what they know about Ireland, and I have, found as a rule lhat they know nothing about it; not even ( about ihe tides of scholarly and Christian enlight- I rmneiit lhat in times now long by flowed so copious- ly from its schools and churches, to the cvangeliza- ( lion of England and the illumination of the eonti- t nent. There is pretty general agreement to taboo J ihe whole business and to wrap it in one compre- 1 hensive bundle of contempt. ( "I was brought up in this respect, as I suppose most lads among us have been, and I was past 1 twenty years of age when, upon learning that a re- ' spectable young man of my acquaintance had married mar-ried an, Irish girl. I conceived .iia1: his prospects were ruined for life and pretty essentially dam- J aged for the life to come. ' "A part of ibis is due. undoubt edly, to a ceilain j incompatibility" between the Teutonic and Celtic j mind. The Teutonic races, r which the. English !j and ihe Saxons are examples, are constituted dif- c fcreitt from the Celtic races, of which the Irish Mid 1 ho French are examples. They therefore arc not in a position to understand eacii other.' lu concluding Dr. Parkhursr. said that .ns we learn' something about, the Christian religion by studying; St. Paul's missionary tours through Ciiveoe and Asia Minor, so we may learn something , about the Christian religion by studying St. Pat rick's missionary lours ihrongh Ireland, and the Christianizing inriuonees lhat radiated from Ireland Ire-land and that brought the knowledge! of the gospel t northern England and western Europe. : . The fad, stonily and repeatedly impressed upon us by history and categorically endorsed by science that a low moral tone is detrimental and a high moral tone conductive, to the physical and mental progress of both nations and individuals, emphasize ihe same truth as that to which our ordinary speech bears witness. The effort to rise in the scale of life appears characteristic of man. lJctrogression and failure invariably following upon particular courses of conduct, shows that nature bears advance in certain cer-tain directions. The attempt to persevere in these directions, and yet advance, is therefore unnatural tid fore-doomed. fr You can live without innny things and still -he i comfortable, but. if you try to live without the ap- proval of your conscience, despair will creep over I you as the shadows of evening creep over the earth I at sundown. Religion teaches us to keep our faces I toward heaven, as a mariner watches the polar-star, and to steer by what we ee. To be true, just, kind- f ly is to bring heaven so near that when you die you have but a step to go, and that step will make you p!d that you have sacrificed all else, but kept your faith in the true and the right intact. St. Joseph's Journal. 4 Tassion is an unruly horse. Prejudice is its Mind driver, and ihe vehicle it runs away with is the human heart. Reward and punishment are bridle bri-dle and spur. . f When the secret of a blessed life is made plain to us, we see that each one must learn it for himself. j ; ; '' I "In this day of sharp"coinpetition half-hearted,' I .. indifferent methods will not suffice. |