The Irish standard., 1888-02-18

with those who know them:
tAnd Jacob being departed from Ber
sabee, went on to Ha1an.
And when he was to certain
place, and would rest in it after sunset
be took off the stones that lay there
and putting it under his head, slept il
the same place.
And he saw in his sleep a ladde!
standing upon the earth, and The tol
thereof touching heaven, the angels
also of God, ascending and descending
by it.
And the Lord leaning upon the lad
der said to him: L am the Lord,
God of Abrham, thy father, and tht
God of Isaac: the land wherein thou
sleepest [ will give to thee and to thy
seed.
and thy seed shall be as the dust o1
the earth. d. and blessed in
thee and thy seed all the tribes of the
earth shall be blessed.
| And I will be thy keeper whitherso-
ever thou goest, aud will bring thee
back into this land
And when Jacob awaked out of the
sleep, he said: Indeed, the Lord is in
this place, and knew it not
And trembling he said: How terri
bic is this place. This is no other but
the house of God and the gate Of
Heaven
And Jacob, arising in the morning,
took up the stone which he had laid
under his head. and set it up for q title,
pouring oil upon the top of it.
And he called the name of the city
Bethel, which before was called Luza.
(, When the Milesians took the Lila
Fail they set it up at Tara. the resi-.
dence of the kings OF ireland, and they
held it in the greatest estimation. Fer
1900 years it was used by them as the
coronation seat. at the inauguration Of
their monarchs at Tara.
The antiquity Of the Lila FAIL and
the veneration in which it was held,
is borne testimony to by English, Scotch
and Continental writer's and historians.
The influence which it was supposed
TO possess was thus expressed in an
ancient Gaelic verse:
Unless the fates are faithless found.
And prophets voice be vain,
Where'er this monument be found,
The Scottish race shall reign"
In reference TO the word Scottish, /
may remark that from the third to the
twelfth century, ireland was known to
the civilized world as Scotia, and her
people as Scots, while Scotland was
then called Albany.
From the twelfth to the sixteenth
century European writer's called Ire
land Scotia Major, to distinguish her
from Scotland, which was called Scotia
Minor.
The departure ct toe Lila Fail, from
Ireland is a question by no means set
tied. That the Scotch believed they
possessed it from the fifth to the thir-
teenth century is quite true; and the
English are convinced Of the identity
of their coronation stone (which is un-
doubtediy the stone of Scone} with the
vsnerated Lila Fail ct the hill of Tara.
The evidence, however, is conclusive
that the real Lila Faii' il still in Ire
land standing Oh Tara Hill, and that
the stone 80 loug treasured in Scotland
and England is spurious.
The manner Of taking the alleged
Stone OF Destiny from Ireland was as
follows: In the year 504 an Irishman
named Loarn, became king Of Western
Scotland, Butte and the Hebrides.
In the year SIS he was succeeded by
his brother Fergus, who to give securi
ty to his newly acquired kingdom, re-
qussted his brother Murtogh, then
monarch of Ireland, to send him the
Stone of Destiny, on which to be
crowned. ...
DR.. Petrie, the celebrated authority
ON the antiquities of Tara, has d1scov-
cred that false stone was sent, which
was yenera ed by the Irish and their
descendants who formed the kingdom of
Western Scotland or Albany. 1t was
preserved for many centuries with care,
first in the monastery at Columkille at
Iona, in the Hebrides, and afterwards
at the royal seat in Dunstafuage, Ar
gyieshire, whence it was removed in
ninth century by Kenneth MacAlpin,
to the Abbey Of Scone, near Perth.
Some historians contend that the al
legged Lila Fail was not brought to
Scotland until the ninth century, when
Aodh Finliath, monarch of Ireland,
sent it to be used at the coronation OF
Kenneth MacAlpin, his father-i law.
and first monarch of all Scotland.
From this period the stoue was pres
erved at the Abbey of Scone, near
Perth. until the year 1895, when King.
Edward the First Of England, having
everrun Scotland, carried as q trophy.
to England. lie placed it in Westmin-
ster Abbey, where it now forms the
support to Edward the confessor's
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