The Irish standard., 1893-04-08
THE CELTIC RACE,
It's Mission is to Disseminate the
Love of Civil and Religious
Liberty.
THE IRISH AS CIVILlZERS,
They Have Always Recognized the
Dignity and Sanctity Of
Wonanhood.

They Have Always Recognized the
Dignity and Sanctity Of
Womanhood.
The Celt was the Perssus cf the ca ly
world. He was everywhere and always
redressing wrongs. He was an impetu-
Gus, adventurous wanderer. But wan
derer with ideas. His mission from the
beginning was to civilize and spread the
light. He was q crusader before the
coming of the Cross. For centuries be-
fore Christ, the sword and javelin OF the
Celt were the butwarks of liberty and of
national self-government. In Gaul, he
fought against the Roman enemy from
the South, and the barbarian invader
from the North and the East. Brennus
and his warriors, centuries before Caesar,
laid Rome in ashes, and Caesar found in
the Colts of Gaul his most formidable
adversaries. Vercingetorix, the hero Of
the Commentarians De Bollo Calico was
knight-errantf from Ierne In the North
and the East the Celtic Gaul met the
Asiatic invaders and hurled them back
across the Rhine over the Helvetian
mountains, AID into the North Sea. From
that time until Providence saw fit to
submit the world to the prophetic domin-
alton of Rome in preparation for the
coming of Christ, Celtlc-Gaul was free
and triumphant in it's independent ma
tionality.
In Ireland itself the invader never left
his footprints until st. Patrick came.
When the Celt was conquered it was by
the Cross. The Druias had taught him
an intellectual worship. He was an
idealist from the beginning The Greek
found God in beauty and in heroism The
Celt found Him in nature. He lifted up
his eyes and saw the sun. His method
was symbolic like the Persian, and be-
cause the sun was the great heart Of the
universe he worshipped it as the image
of God. When st. Patrick came with
the great ideals Of christianity, they
were accepted at once. The Celtic brain
did not reason itself into belief. Truth
came to it like CLEANS of light, and the
sacrifice of the Cross, so much in accord
with the heroic aspirations of the race,
led captive the Celtic heart. The first
impulse Of great heart is to commune
cate it's joy. The sons of st. Patrick no
sooner possessed the truth than they be-
came it's missionaries. Schools were es-
tablished throughout the country and
ut once ireland became renowned
throughout Europe for her sanctity and
scholarship.
Not content with this, they sent their
missionaries all over the European conti-
nent. The very barbarians who had an
initiated the Roman Empire aud re-
sisted all other missionary efforts Of the
Church succumbed to the influence of
the Celtic Saint. The footprints of the
Irish apostles are everywhere on the Eu-
ropean continent. In the mountains OF
Northern Italy and Switzerland, along
the banks of the Rhine, throughout the
whole Of Germany, in Poland and Lithu-
ania, past the very confines of Russia,
the Irish missionary suffered and labored
and died for the faith. This was the
first exodus Of the Irish race
To Christianize is to civilize. With
the knowledge Of the Cross come all the
qualities which regenerate people; love
of order and love of liberty. The Celtic
race has had two-fold mission from the
beginning to spread the love Of liberty in
civil matters and the love of faith in reli-
gious matters.
The resistance of the Celt to the Dane
and Norman was struggle for hearth
and home, inspired by the love of liberty
and only exer5ed an influence on other
civilizations Indirectly. They preserved
their national existence and changed the
very character of their enemies, making
them Hiberniores Hibernicis ipsis more
Irish than the Irish themselves. It was
only after the surrender OF Limerick that
the Irish exercised once more predom-
insnt influence upon the destiniee OF Eu-
rope. By hundreds Of thousands the
Irish e1lles joined the armies Of the con
tinent. Spain, France Austria, even
Russia, We'd with each other il securing
the services Of the heroic Celt. From
that day until the treaty OF Paris IN 1918
every army in Europe had it's Irish regi.
ments. many Of them itss Irish brigade
Not battle Held of Europe but has
heard the battle-cry of tlhs Celt. and
wherever "a English soldier drew sword
Ior bayonet q Iriishrnal was there IS faes
him back
uas IS IS the q