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Show 'AMERICA'S DEBT io synTkiCK "The Christianity which huu made Ainefim came In lliu Mn tiower troiu OIU England und Ue heathen triglan! oi tno Angles ovea its Iwot religion a.s does Scotland the conoralon oi tin? liiKhlftnderH to Ireland and Iroland owes It to Bt 1'atrlck. so It la no fancj to buy ihui tho marveloun missionary wjjo Uunstormcd hwulit n Ireland and madu It tho center of ilio world's culture and iclls;ion I0r enrlj Christianity l.s tno living liv-ing link between Su 1'u.ul and our d:i. said lYenerick Vlulug Flshor last nlghi in his sermon on The Man Who Maue a 1'i-oplt." . . Ah hi- continued he said: "The three greatest men In history In evangelizing tho world and transforming the world have Iwn St. l'uul. who found the Ito-niuji Ito-niuji ernnlru heathen and made It Christian, Chris-tian, St Patrick, who found tho present pres-ent English anoalclng peoples pagan and tot aflr tho forces that awept them for Christ, and John Wvslcy. who found Christianity among them dying and mado Hnghsh speaking i hrlsllanlty tho biggest big-gest power of modern tlmw. "Tho romanco of St. Patrick Is that hlH name was not Patrick, he was not an Irishman and ho wns the lender of a Celtic church and not a Roman. In fnct. It Is a magnificent tribute to him that tho land for whom ho gavo his llfo makes this Scotch foreign missionary her hero and tho great Roman church to whom tho Irish pooplo whom ho nav-od nav-od have added so much strength should be proud to build Imr spli-ndld cathedrals cathe-drals in his nnmo. Sucat wu? born almost In Plght of modern Glasgow, when Roman legions were camped In sight of the -mvngc Scotch highlands When Rome took her legions home to avo her very life the Highlanders with savage- fury swont down o'n the frontier liomo and stole a sixteen-year-old lad and sold him into Irish slavery Tho story of thoso six captive yoars In a pagan land, his escape homo, his conversion and call to go as a missionary mission-ary to thoso who had cursed his life, his faolnjc heathen Ireland for God and his flftv years of almost superhuman work for Ireland, transforming It from thy darkest spot In Europe to be th lighthouse of the age, In a story more wonderful and romantic than any Icgond that tho centuries may havo added to hlK life There are some tremendous lesions fiom the life of a man like this. Wo ask do missions pay? Go back to tho pagan world of our fathers and sen them worse than Africa's savages today and then look at tho English speaking people leaders of the world today and scf what AuKU'stine. Columbln. St. Patrick, Pat-rick, all missionaries, did and no man can help seo that nil wo are wo owe to the Christian missionary Such men are mon of prayer St. Patrick wa. The man who does great things for his followmen today must also al-so be a man of prayer nut tho biggest lesson of this hero of our race is that it In possible for a man nl. alone to bo. so good and true ami live so near God that he can In flftv years absolutclj transform a nation God give us that kind of mer in I'tah and America to turn a people money mad and wild with pleasure from heathen hea-then materialism back to simple Christianity Chris-tianity and Almighty God |
