The morning call., 1894-03-18

sudden rIpeness of the northern summer
at once covered the whole land.
among the ranks OF The converted.
saw their sons and daughters joining the tram
without murmur. Chiefs at variance in all
else agreed TO meet beneath the Christian ban
ner; and the proud DRUID ana Bard laid their
supeTstilions meekiy at the foOl of the cross;
nor by a single blessing uneXampled in the
whole history OF the church was there a single
drop of blood SD on account of religion
throughout the entire course Of this mild
Christian revolution, by which all Ireland was
| brought Tranquility IN space OF lew years
under The dominion OF the gospel
What the race received willingly and so
enthusiastically, with its Characteristic gener-
went abroad bearing Its heavenly treasures,
aud scattered them with free hand all over
EuroDe.
What shall say OF Ireland" writes Herne,
(which. despising the dangers of The ocean,
emigTates with her troops OF philosophers ana
descends on our shores. Her Christian teach
ers were everywhere. They were found along
the vine-clad hills by which flow German riveTs,
and. pushing into the interior of the country,
carried the fan b Of Rome where Roman legons
never trod and the name OF Christ WAS never
heard. They are found in The Eternal City WIS.,
lting her cataeOmbs and The shines OF her mar
tyrs and saints. They are found in the far
East treading with Tevetential steps the places
made sacred by our Lord himself"
And such has been IreaDds history ever
since; at home and abroad, in days of pros
periy or in days of persecution, when the sac
rlfice of the mass was offered up in stately
cathedrals whose ruins strew he land, whose
broken arches, fallen columns and shattered
crosses speak more eloquently OF Ireand's
wrongs and Ireland's WOES than her great
orators ever spoke, or on the matched chapel
with ITS floor of clay or on the mass-rock by
the hillside, they have chung with a fidelity
thai has never faltered o what they believe 10
be Gods Tevealed truth.
We know but too well that long, sad history
written In tears ana blood. which reads like
chapter Of the history OF Tie church under
Nero and DloclrIiaD. 1t seems to-day. sur
rounded as we are by so many civiZing IN
flu noes, that tn code of laws enacted against
tie Catholics of Ireland could not have been
conceived BY human being nor nuTtured tn
human breast. The records OF rel gious per-
stcu ion," writes DR.. Tuila, I'D all counties
have nothing more hideous than the persecu-
lion OF IRISH Catholics. On them all devices OF
cruelty were exhausted. Ingenuity was taxed 10
devise new plans OF persecution, Till The ma
chinery OF penal inlquiGy might be pronounced
perfect. Catholics We're forbidden TO Oren
schools for their children They could neilher
teach nor be taught. price was placed on
the ad of the Irish priest. No Catholic could
buy land or receive IL by descent or lend
money on IL as secu ity. Ii a chld became
Protestant he could claim tile rIoperiy Of his
father. II he owned a horse worth more than
SO Protestant had but to lender him the
money aud take IT. Tn land was a or at repast
! at which every monarch babe his lords SIT down
and cal. AT er they had gorged their fill, what
was left was for those who came after them.
tranquility succeeded only after some lnbu-
man massacre, but IL was The tranquility OF the
gray yard. The proud aud patriotic lrishmen
were folded 10 the sleep of d alb, aud the ST.
ence and pose around their lifeless cOrpses
was called ueace. They made solitude and
called II peace. All was gone. For the sake OF
principle, for loyalty o truth, for CbrisI's sake
cid the Irlsn people become he heaIhen'S jest
and sii in the gate silent and dispossessed.
Churches, schools, moDasteIies, The very land
pass d in o the hands OF strangers A home
and country remained MOI 10 HEM
Que hing alone remained towering IN The
desert. the cross of Christ. emblem Of their
faith. theii consolation 9Gd their hope. Around
their Celtic cross suffering people gathered ana
from It flowed a never-failing iount OF life.
They were not crushed by he SWORD, nor by
famine, nor by peslilence. and beneath tie
chains with which their mics bound them
the spirit remained free with the liberty with
which Christ has made us free"
Through storm and fire and gloom see 1t stand
Firm broad and tall.
The Celtic cross that MARKS our fatherland.
amid them all
Druids and Danes and SaYons vainly rage
Around its base.
IL standeth shock on shock and age on age,
Star OF a scattered race.
Yes in truth, they are chllde en- OF the cross
ana they have brought 1t In Triumph 10 every
land Denied the right to iV- at home, they
went abroad carrying with Them that pearl of
"e", ,r,ce tatin and love for the church of
Christ And they have planted n In every land.
They Al eyerywbefe-in the large commeIci
cities OF England working their way 10 promi-
nehee aud position IN every grade OF society.
and with them their Celtic cross; IN The far-Of
lands beneath the southern cross throughout
the length and breadth of .his continent. from
oc an o ocean, a ong tile banks OF our great
rivers, In the great cities OF the interior, In our
dense for SITS, In our fertile praifies. studdIDg
the laud with their churches, schools ana col
Ieges, and planting on hem, as their ntting
ornament, the cross Of Christ, which they re-