Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-13
IRELAND.


REvEKEND MORROWS LECTURE.
Some Of the characteristics of the Natives Of
the Emerald 1sle-Ths beauty and
Grandeur OF the scenery.
Rev. James Morrow, D. d., pastor of
the Tabernacle church of Philadelphia.
lectured in Duke street Nj. E. church last
| evening tO an audience that should have
been much larger, on the subject, " Ire
land and Specimen Irishmen."
The speaker, in his PREDATORY re-
| marks, mentioned the great importance
| of all knowing something about the Irish
and their country. In remarking upon tho
characteristics of the people and tho
country Rev. Morrow thought that the
gulf stream, whose waters rise in the
Indian ocean aud after winding through a
part of other oceans touch the coast of
Ireland, had much to do with tho Temporal
ment of the natives and the peculiarities
of the soil. Ireland, said he, is really in
terestiug. Men of science find in its
geology much that entertains and in
structs them men who are net
beautiful scenery wonderful pic
ture of color and form. As belonging to
the scenery of the country, the lecturer
mentioned the Giants Causeway, which
SO many call freak of nature. 1t is flat
rs floor on tho top, and one seems to
walk over, when upon it, lot of columns,
| in the centre of which is IN OctagOnal oac
surrounded by many Others, and SD close
| together that it is impossible to insert u
| pcnknife between them. Then, from
below, as one looks upon them, the col
umus bear . most perfect likeness to tho
! pipes of an organ. Wo may not know for
| acsrtainty how this wonder wa, formed,
but probably that force of motion that
leads to the formation of starch
is tho same which formed tho
causeway. Then there is tho famous Lake
of Killarney, which was in the parish Of
DIR. Morrow, when he was i resident OF
Ireland. There standing on ono Of tho
bluffs one may count beneath him the
peaks of 40 hills ten miles away across
the country one may 500 tho great line of
turfs, while ten miles in another direction
may be discerned the Atlantic breaking
it's waves against the shores and all
around are rare plants, and exquisite
scenery.
DR.. Morrow thea spoke of tho early his.
tory of the Emerald Isle, and said that in
no other country will Il knowledge Of the
past help us more tO Al understanding OF
the present age than Ireland. The ancient
Irish were known as Celts, and lre part ot
y great race the Milisans in SPAN, ito
Gauls in France arc Of them, and III Tho
hills of Scotland one can find nation
from the same division of tho human race.
The Colts pushed them iaIvos forward into
many parts Of the old world, and wo may
remember rs q subject for thought that
winch Paul addressed his epistlo to the
| Corinthians it was to naa of tho branches
of the great Celtic race. Another point
in the nationality Of Irishmen is their Ian
guage. 1t has Il marked resemblance in its
formation TO soma other languages of the
| globe. But to the Irish, many Of them, it
is, as is natural, the dearest tongue oi all.
Some of them will argue that their Ian.
guage was the first spoken and that Adam
and Eve used it in the Garden of Eden.
A gain, others will say that it is the very
lone that the devil cannot speak or learn,
| while to the lecturers mind, it is tho best
language in which to curse, tho
best in which to pray and tho best in
| which to make love, and there is really I
weight Of poetry laying in the simple Irish
heart aad he finds ex preston OF it i'll his
language. ~.
l Another featare is the structure of society.
1t is remarkably like the patriarchal life
of the Bible. 1t is that Of tho clan,
wherein the father Is not only the head Of
the family, but Of clan, which charac
teristic still lingert Ia 4 faint degree. But
there was time wllenan o. COnnell would
not tolerate All O'Shaughensscy an
| O'DOnnell notice Mclaughlin, and this
antipathy of tho clans is yet somewhat
felt.
The lecturer then spoke of the geuiaiity
and general points of tho characters OF
L Iria Eur Itch. g
never happy but when he is growing, Z
Scotchman never at home unless abroad,
and an Irishman is never ut peace unless
he is fighting. As to the question Of re-
ligiOn, the speaker thought that no
matter what might be their vices or their
tendencies there is nothing among them
that part;,kes of iniidelism or even OF
materialism. They are distinctivoly u 10.
ligious people. This trait has come down
to them from their earliest times.
When st. Patrick began his work in Ire
land, the Druidical form Of worship Still!
fingered. He made his way southward to
Tara and began to preach the gospel. The
lecturer then told briefly Of the life OF this
good Irish evangelist, and spoke Oi the
intensity and impetuosity Of the natives
of Ireland in the propagation of their re-
ligiOn. Henry Second was the first Eng
lisb king who called himself owner of
Ireland, but before he invaded Ireland he
received bull from tho pope allowing his
course, and STIMULATING that the tax f
Peters pence should go to his holm ess.
In the course of his remarks the lecturer
said that instead of regardiu. the potato,
in which all Irishnen delight as Il
blessing, he thought it Il curse. Be!or,
Sir Walter Raleigh brought til, bulb of
the plant from tho new world, tho Irish
were Industrious They titled their land
and lived mostly upon grains. But
when they got the potato they soon dis.
covered how easily it could be grown, and
instead OF being thrifty and Industrious as
before, they .reT cai seless aud unsteady.
and then when the darks days of the great
famine come and the potatoes r6 It'd
and black death was everywhere tho ei-
fects of the introduction of tho plant were
seen.
Ireland cannot boast Of her riches, but
like the mother of the Gratii, i'm Roman
history, she could point to her sons as her
jewels. In every department of human
knowledge they have been found. There
are GrattaD, Burke, Swift, Sterne, Gold
smith, Clarke, Curran, and even Handy
Andy and Oscar Wilde, all from Irish
parentage.
The specimen 1rishmen were then given,
the lecturer taking Adam Clarke, tho
author Of the great Bible commentary.
Oliver Grldsmth aud John PhiiIpot Cur
ran as the particular ones. Iu his portrayal
of the early struggles of each and their