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Show aMMRMtSaSSJJMSBjJtBJtfJtJtBJtjtBfJ e ty wO A Lijhop in Land Where He Had cStyvJfA It i' -aid tin, i nn other people tinder lieawn hati so seiiuercd to ihe fMt pin ii. nf i hi sjinh, as hare the Irlsl licmver ihe) have gone, they ban luNn their veneration for the ipsi i n aiilni of ihe Knieinld Isle and in the aetinteenth of each recur ring M irrh hate Worn Ihe shamrock and hit of green rlblmaj thai lei! tbeliy loyaltt I'hui whs the gieatest missionary Tin in tt greatest waa Patrick, of whciin ,1 Piiiieeianl minister mice said The (atbolha cannot Claim I'Strlrk alone He belonged lo the chtiuh unltiraal and In any age, In sn roiintr) or under any eltctim stances would have Ikm-w h saint " This la the aim) of Ihla remarkable man While the Romans were masters of llrttaln iKnglandl I hell- was lltlng kesr tin Scottish Under u Roman deputt in mnglatrale b) Ihe tmtiie of Calimrnlu Hla rather I 'oil tils, had lied ii i id xi t'lilpurnliis himself was I dement and his wife Clinches was said In hate leii a near relallte of Ht Mat i In of Tours The son of this kihhI p-opli waa named Hiiecat lie hu siiim ittui-a eatleil Putrlcliis I e piiniiiiin r iioble-bnru, and In Hue ihl- iisiiii supplnnletl the other snd lH-aiiie sliiuluiiwl Into Patrick Alaiul A II III a Und of Plrls from Miotland tabled the coiinlr) Just (mill of Hi veins well and captured a largi iiiiiiiIm i or tin u among them I'atrbk now h Ian in Ida sixteenth rear They taiibd Ihdr captlvm Sir !r YvVl OK ict oss the cliunnel Intu Ireland, nnd Iheru sold them for slates Patrick wua sold to a pellv chief. Mllclio, who lived In the county of Antrim, iimong tho Slenilsh mountains He wus set In lieidlng cattle, und for six years wut out ou Ihe lonely hills nearly all of the time b) liltuseH In hit 'Confessions he tells ut that ho pro) ml "ii hundred pray era In the day nnd neurl) us man) at night In the wnodi nnd in the moiiniHlns I remained, nnd Imbue the light I arose lo m pru)e In the snow, In Iho ruin . . fur the spirit of dial was wnriu In me" Near the close of tho sixth year, when ho was a )uung man of ii, he had tho first of his remarkable dreams He thought ho was told to return to llrltnln. and that bo would find it ship wnlllnK for him ut tho sen-shore. sen-shore. Nothing doubting, he made his way down the glen lo the beach nnd sure enough, there wns n ship nt anchor. lie waa roughly refused pas-safe. pas-safe. Turning aw a), he fell on hla knew In prayer, when one from the ship onme to him and told him lo come with them The channel waa totted, but he lost his way He saya "In 31 days, by land and sea, wan tiring' In h desert place." he reached home, where he was Jo) fully re, MrlVed. After an Interval, Patrick had an other of Ida vision like dreams He thought a man from Ireland hy the Mine of Victor came to him, with hla arms piled full of letters Patrick opened one of these, snd II began "The voice of the Irish ' Patrick continues: con-tinues: "While reiHiatlng the words I Imagined I heard In my mind tho voice of the Inhabitants who lived near the wood of Kocblad, on the Irish enatt, and they cried We pray thee, holy youth, to come and henceforth walk among ut " Patrick thought this dream a call to carry the gospel to tho Irish, but hit people besought him wllh tears and persuasions not to go He grow WHMBHHtsHsassHsBssBBss! I sick with anxlet) but at last vowed lo go when be at once began to mend I sold tny mibllll) for this nation (the Irish), ' he sa)a ' Imt I am not ashamed, neither do I repent. I I became a sertant for Jesus Christ.' I Now In those ds)s. Ireland had n. high rltlllsalliiti At Ihe king a court I were many Imnls and ssgea Kecb of these lied studied IS long ymrs be- i fore he could put on the while fealher trimmed robe of hla order, or the alx colored dreaa that II was lawful for ' none hut Ihe king or an Itlamh Mlu la ! wise main to wear Patrick saw clearly thai, lo contert Ihe nalliin, he must first resell the king and tills imwerful court of . learned men He must lie cilucnleil to do this Bo for some )eirs he burled I himself nt the school or chiirih of I Candida fuse, so called because lllshop Nliilau had built II of beautiful beauti-ful wlille stone This wns In south Scot bind mid S'lnlan, noble-born, educated edu-cated at Rome, and who had himself coutetted Hie south I'lcta In Chris tlanll), was of all men the best quail tied to train ardent nnd enthusiastic I Patrick for Ids life work. He was nenrl). or quite. 30 when ho reached Itelaud, which ho vowed , never to leave t first every obttn cle was Ihiown lu hla way, und nnco he was thrown Inlo feller Nothing daunted, he preached nn etery hill nnd 1 plain He used lo ring n hand bell lo call the people together This queer, four square bill of Patrick's la sill! 'prcsirvcd at llclfnat. It was long I known ns 'clog an eadhactu That- I rale ( The bill of HI Pntrlckiywlll ") 1 It Is six Inches high, and Is made of ihlu Iron plates riveted together Ikiublless ll was plain enough In Ida da) hut now It Is set wllh gems unit adorned wllh gold nnd silver filigree. When a crowd gathered, Patrick's wunl was to read his text In l-atlii, then to translate ll lulu the lrh tongue After this he preached it I plain, earnest sermon, couched In terms that all could iindeisland Oil one occasion when he was pleaching lu tho open air, In the presence of Iho king, he iercelved that tho doctrine or Ihe Trinity, Ihe oneness of tho l-'nl her, Hon and Holy (Ihost, wns tint . grasped hy his I earurs Stooping down, he plucked a leaf fiiiiu ti shamrock at his feet Ho showed that each of Ihe three leaflets was a perfect leaf In Itself, )it to gel her I hey formed but n single leaf n lit t)po of the (iodhend The lllustin-tlnn lllustin-tlnn made a profound sensation, nnd to thla day "When Krlu s suns st marching down the struei sml fair ones lean From daleonles with slowing cheeks to hsll ilia rise of araen The whil they lav Ihrlr iietlv Isrul I from south to norihsrn bay. They wear a leaf of shsmrock grn on eaili SI l'alrli-k'a I my " I'or lite years Patrick preached Hie gospel with small success Then King Ueogalre McNeill and Ills court of sages beta ma Christiana The com 1 nion people followed them, so that the nation may be said to hate changed lit faith lu a day. There must have lieen something singularly I winning about Ihe man Tho king heniied honors iixm him, the pope made him a bishop, and the haughty Ollamhs, or court sages, submitted their riles and rules to him for levls-Ion levls-Ion Thero waa nothing of tho fanatic about I'ntrlck Ho prohibited tho Druid mysteries, magic and Incanta. Hon but left over) tiling else, as It bad been gBsMsatMtjMMMMIMtyflsHtjajj |