The morning call., 1894-03-18

The majestic dignity of age. and in all
no weakness, oppression b brought no
0egeneracy. And II there are lines of sorrow
on her features. there are noble marks of
having been faithful 10 God aud TO principle In
the past, and they ale an earnest of fidelity in
future. When the historian OF the church
wri es OF its marvellous expansion In The Eng
disappearing countries, he will not fail TO
bring out In eloquent prominence he fact so
glorious 10 the children of 81. Patrick, that
even as the church spTaDg from the blood
stained cross of the Savior of the world. so the
church of the Engish-speaking world came from
the SuffefiUgS and he blood OF tie IRISH people.
That 10 them, under the providence of God, II is
due mat this faith has been carried 10 the ends
of the earth. H. will show how. from that
island. every foot OF which is holy ground be-
dewed with martyrs blood in which more
suffering has been endured and more wrong
penetrated than in any 9th land, The faith
came forth 10 the nations sitting IN tile dark
ness and shadow OF death. How, out of the
mangled cOrst In which there seemed TO be no
soundness, in which there was no beauty left
out of which the very life had been crushed
which had been thrown as something hdeous
luto The grave which was TO hide il forever from
The gaze of man. How, in IL sill. there was
the I'M of glorious resurrection which at
last burst the bonds of the tomb. and made it
the Tree, Triumphant and cOnquering church
whose nam thrills the hearts OF millions OF her
children, whose praises are chanted by the
ANGELS in heaven.
The tendency of all Catholic people IS toward
Independence and personal liberty, and op-
posed TO despOtlsm, impe iaism and centraiiZa-
tlOn. Wherever found, history bears witness
TO the fact, that they never accepted without a
protest or without a struggle, a despotc form
OF government or the rule of a stranger; that
they have always been on the side of popular
rights, and have ever viewed power as a trust
TO be used for the benefit Of the people. Heucr
they have always struggled for that form of
government which Mr.. Lincoln summed up In
words so famous "a Government of the people
by the people and for the people,"
Study carefully the special cbaractpristtcs of
the Celtic people OF the world, ana we have
the warrant OF history saying: that though I'M
successful they have ever been from the earlies [
days, tile most heroic champions of that form
OF civic government which, after centuries Of
opposition, blOOmrd at last In Its fun flower
in the constitution OF this republic.
struggling with such noble neroism against the
invasion of the Romans under Cesar: the
Scotch protesting against III union with Eng
land; the Celt IN England teeping up a war for
nearly 800 years against AnglO-Saxons and
Anglo Normaus, rejecting all on rs as salts
factory unless they included the right of the
nation TO govern Itself according to its own
laws, It's own traditions and the special char
acleFistic genius of its people.
And thus for centuries, with laws OF its own
making, clinging to their ancient established
Inherited rights they lived, gradually dev lop-
Ing their civilization ana culture, so that The
nrst Christian missionaries found them an or
ganized, civilized, iaw-abdIng people. We need
not, therefore, be astonished thai when the full
truth aud beauty Of the Christian religion we e
made known TO them they adopted them with
gladness and without opposition and under the
stimulus OF the new faith hey advanced to that
degree OF even material progress of which we
have most ample evidence
In tie archives of lush academies, in the al
cows OF The mOnasteries, In libraries at Ok
ford. London, Paris. Brussels and Cope nhageu
~ the great collection at the Vatican, ancient
lrlsh manuscripts are found older than any
living language, giving accounts Of battles
fought more than 1000 years ago, with swords
OF finest temper, shields embossed with silver
anu Delmrts wrought In gold. and day by day
0elVers IN lfish earth md even now proofs that
old accounts are true.
We know how the Romans carried their VIC
t0Tlous eagles to almost every known land
They were encamped along he banks of Ger
man rivers; hey brought under their sway the
nations OF Asia; they held Africa as a con-
generals made laws for The world For over
800 years they lived and ruled In Britain, and
yet Que land. though tempting TO their ambi-
non, was never subject TO their aui horitv
we Know tnat alter struggle OF 200
years the island was able to finally
repel the Danes, routed and conquered
on the held OF Clontaif. GRADUALLY as the
years went by and the Industrial shirt was de-
VelOped among the nations Of Euiope the isl
ana SEM the products Of tht loom and of the
forge TO The markets of the Continent, and COM
peted with success with the most skillful and
most artistic. Ii was Ihen taking advantage
OF divisions among native leaders that Eng
land undertook the conquest and subiugation
OF Inc island, and English rule, which was
made possible only through dIsunion, CON-
IN nding Itself at first through fraud.
has been perpetrated for over 700
years, through agencies unknown IN the
history oi any other couquests so
that The wonder Is that there are lflshmen 10
blooded. heartiess, systematic repression and
persecution Which Is found later on In the penal