Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-03-16
ST. PATRICK's DAY.
It's Celebration by the HI
bernian Mutual Relief
Society of Memphis.
A Sensible Suggestion by the
Taller.

Ntrhhrl OF tue mirbionhfJ huicus No ho
looks upon the inspiring stories Of ST..
George and the Dragon and st. Dennis
and the Mulberry Tree-very entertain
ing and wholesome mental enjoyment
in the sweet spring-time Of Boyhood (;
but as Day Of Rejoicing and Renewal
OF Christian Faith, he thinks its observ-
ance should not be confined to the
children Of Erin, as "all ends Of the
earth should rejoice over one Of the
yet one Of the sublimest, figures
of Modern Truth-that Of the Shamrock
representing the Unity of the Godhead,
Three in One. Verify, since the creation
of Adam there has been nothing equal
to it in grandeur, save the Baptism Of
John, figure Of Regeneration, typiiying
that as flowers of the field receive
Strength aud Beauty from rain and sun
shine, 80 Human Souls receive Power
and Grace from tho benevolence and
munificence of God.
However, as this thing Of General Re-
joicing is more of fancy than fact, and
likely ever to remain so; and as Paddy
will be Paddy still, whether he walks in
the Vale of Avoca or sits on the top OF
Lookout Mountain; the Tatlers inclined
to give the treason that is in him why
Irishmen should honor the Seventeenth
of March with music, mirth and jollity
galore. II is this: because they love
their Native Home; and on that partic-
ular day, from old associations and hab.
its, all the lights and shades that clus-
tered about their birthplace come like
pictures to their memories, and fill their
hearts with feelings of the deepest admi.
ration. And this is no wonder: for
whatever may be asserted in ridicule Of
the "superstitions " Of Irishmen by per-
sons who pretend to higher civiliza.
tion," nothing derisively can justly be
said by the most experienced tourist in
regard to the natural beauties surround
ing their homes. What scenes so beau
tiful as their rivers, fringed with wild
flowers pceping through the greenest
grass beneath myrtle and laburnum
boughs; their lakes, placid as a moon
beam and clear as crystal, adorned with
the arbutus in its verdant loneliness,
overhung with groves of cypress and
holly, chestnut and larch, under whose
branches the wild deer find covert;
their rills, ripping through moorland
and meadow, bordered here with the
snow-white lily and the dropping willow,
and there with the crimson-tipt daisy,
hawthorn and purple
plumed lilac; their cascades, rolling
down rocks covered with moss and sweet
brier into glens shaded by the broad
arms Of oaks and festoened with the
glossy leaves of ivy, where the mavis
and the MERLE mingle their thrilling
tenors with the brawling bass of falling
waters; their mountains, mantled with
the scarlet-fowering heath, capped with
the tough. bending ash, and sandaled with
the yellow-blooming furz their capes,
gracefully into the briny waves
of the circling ocean, over which sea-
news sweep and cranes spread cloud
of wings; their crags foored With fearn
and topped with pine, where eagles
build their hills, crowned with cedar
and sycamore, elevated in emerald
majesty above glades with brighter green
and berries of softer red; their valleys,
overspread with turf of jasper hue,
spanged profusely with buttercups and
bluebells, violets and pansies, above
which the lark sings matin hymn and
the goldfnch chirps vesper praysr2
Such are the natural scenes recalled
to the intelligent Irish mind on st. Pat
ricks Day and to many of the members
of the Hibernian Mutual Relief Society,
who will march in procession to orrow,
the pictures will be remembered with
Joyous interest. But is there not a
holier procession than this outward
show connected with this Society," Ay,
the procession of prayers from Suffering
Hearts to Heaven for the assistance they
received in hours Of sickness and dis.
tress-a procession that has lasted in this
city for upward of twenty years, and the
Taller hopes may never end, for, as the
Psalmist says, "blessed are they who
the poor, the Lord will de-
liver them in time of trouble" To be
merry, then, in the morning, and do good
in the evening, seems to be the motto on
this occasion of the Hibernians, as they
have detained the learned divine, Father
Carroll, Provencal of the Dominicans,
to deliver lecture tomorrow evening,
in st. Peters Church, on The Catholic
Church in Ireland" from the days of St
Patrick to the present time. The object,
mark you, every Christian in Memphis,
is to raise a fund by free collection to-
ward supporting two hundred orphans,
bows and girls, now in the Catholic
under charge Of the Sisters
of Charity. Remember, o Irish
hearts, remember that a majority of
those poor children are the off
spring of gallant soldiers who shed
their lifs's blood for the South, and when
YOU attend this lecture let your souls be
generous and give freely. Let the " lit