Show PEACE KEYNOTE OF ST PATRICKS WORK overthrow of paganism wonderful achievement st patricks dayl day I 1 what thoughts and emotions these words arouse I 1 A captive youth a beave a swineherd but his soul Is in free while to him ills his captors are in the bondage of pagan ingan dark darkness I 1 the slave escapes and begins the long task ot of preparing to liberate his captors this task lie finally accomplished with a success unparalleled in history ile he led W ills s chiptors ile he found a pagan ile he left it christian with not a life d not a drop of blood shed in effecting the change 1 and this good work lie he accomplished in erin while the world outside wits waa convulsed by the death agonies of the roman empire st Ila patricks tricks day more than tiny any other except christmas day evidences the appeal that lies iles in the story of the Cruci crucified fled one the great message of pence peace and reconciliation itis not merely an irish event it Is worldwide world wide in its ita significance and there aro arc few bilings needed more in the world ot of today than another saint patrick ardently do we rejoice that the nation which patrick freed from the shackles of pagan bondage Is tit in a large measure free from the political despotism which so long oppressed it illinois state register |