The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-27
BRADY ON PARNELL.
He Paid a Glowing Tribute to the
Irish Leaders, Memory.

He Paid a Glowing Tribute to the
Irish Leaders, Memory.
Rev. DR.. James Boyd Brady, as pre-
lude to his sermon in Grace church last
night, paid a very glowing and appre-
ciative tribute to the memory and
worth of Charles Stewart Parnell, the
great Irish leader, whose memory is to
be perpetuated by great monument in
the streets of Dublin.
The occasion of the prelude was the
visit to Worcester last week of Rt. Hon.
Daniel Talon, lord mayor of Dublin,
and Hon. John e. Redmond, member of
parliament and leader of the Parnellite
forces. Mr.. Brady said:
Whatever eXcellencies may be want
ing in the Irish race, in some qualities
of first Importance they excel. They are
capable of the noblest impulses. They
are united and loyal to the cause they
profess to espouse. They are grateful
and generous to those they esteem their
benefactors
No greater temporal benefactor of
the Irish has arisen than Charles Stew
art Parnell. The Irish people have not
forgotten him. Justly indeed do they
seek to immortalize his memory. Their
representatives, Mr.. Redmond of the
British parliament and Lord Mayor
Talon of Dublin, fifty set forth reasons
last week in this city why Parnell
should be memorialized. 1t is true they
cannot canoniZe him as a saint, but they
can canonize him as statesman. His
courage, sagacity, persistence and
hdelity to, and success in his mission
should be inscribed in letters of gold in
the temple of fame
He has reversed the laws of eviction
of the poor Irish tenantry. He shattered
the rack-rent system of exacting and
cruel landlordism. He called in a COM
mittee of arbitrament and settled the
rental question upon an equitable basis.
He brushed away the claim of eternal
right to landlord usurpation and exac-
ton
He made it possible for tenants in
Ireland by paying a fair amount an
nually, finally, at the end of half a CEN
fury, to come into full possession of the
farms that they labor to improve. Great
has been already the relief in Ireland.
Grand are the hopes for the time to
come. The spirit that led Parnell to ac-
complish all this he sucked from his
American mothers breast. 1t was Amer
icanism that sustained him in his great
battles in parliament where these vic
tories We're won. 1t was Americanism
also that influenced the British mem
bers to listen to his plaintive plea.
No such parliamentary victories
could have been won in the British par
lament prior to the time this republic
became the champion of humanity.
Prior to the time of Pitt such PROPOSE
lions as Parnell carried successfully
would have been by ever Fox and
Burke secuted as the rawlings of a
traitor and a maniac. But the leaven of
this commonwealth is overlooking Eu-
rope like a resistless leaven that is
going on till it leavens the entire lump.
Let, then, Americans be true to Amer
icanism in the divine humanitarian
purpose. Let us not defeat our cause by
unbelief or infidelity or Indifference to
the Christ
This worth, this value we place on
human nature is of Him and from Him.
Let the Parnell estate in the lovely vale
of Avoca be held for the Parnell family.
Let a fitting mausoleum be placed
over his dust in the cemetery where he
sleeps. Let a magnificent monument rise
to his memory on the classic streets of
Dublin. But on it all let us who are here
right royalty enthrone that Savioc in
QUIZ lives from whom all human bless
ings flow. Let us continue to keep this
country so pure, so SOBER, so loving, so
true that he shall be able to use it to
undo the shackles of every sufferer in
every land and hold beneath the heal
ing heart of God the open wounds of a
bleeding world
At Grace church tonight, Rev. DR.
Brady is to deliver lecture on Egypt
the mother of arts and sciences" From
the lectures previously delivered in this
course, a fine entertainment may be
ex ected. The lecture VIII be illustrated
with the stereopticon.