The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-06-03
The PRIESTS OF DONEGAL.
1ANY Duties OF THE SAGART
4 AMY AVID THE POWER NE YIELDS.

DA1x UtIfGS W I'M ShoN"A
ADUx AVID THE POWER HE YIELDS.
0ns VssA Law In His Parish. - Father MAO
HsAAsa q Gwesdors said Respect Earned
~ Dsvetisn - HIS Flock The scalsn or
Msss Shed Of Former Dsys-sick Calls
! Rv Ssumas MacMonus.
Ths clergyman Ia here interpreted Roman
CatAclic priest. for clergymen Of other de-
nominations with whom ! shall deal further
dova) IN very rare In our mountains. and
thstr Cocks exceedingly small.
To priest n by far the most important man
% our neiGhborhood. The Autocrat Of all
The nussias b far from receiving the dutiful
obedience paid the priest, and no prince or
potsatate ever got a 1.-THE Of the whole souled
love that is lavished on the darling priest,
o.. a. We call him. the sasart arun.
Some yesrs aso. In the throes OF the land
var the constitutional authorities were shocked
when the worid-famous Father Macfadden
Of dveedore announced for their edifcation
% Q public demonstration: Il am tho law
IN Gwsedora." Yet. though they harried
him and prosecuted him and imprisoned him.
they, 70 thsir bitterness. learned at a sore
pgtes that he had only given utterance to a
cold feet. Tho forces OF tho Crown when
they cana 70 arrest him we're held at bay for
LONG weeks by his poor. unarmed flock. till.
vhea blood had been spilled. he disbanded the
standing army that his followers had con-
Otitutsd for his defence and voluntarily gave
Aimsslf up.
90, In every mountain parish. the priests
word Is more truly the law than the enact
msus OF the British Parliament. And be-
cause Of this sneerers who know not the con-
ditou Of things. and know not the sentiments
end ~feslings. and the proper relations OF priest
and people. say that We are priest-ridden.
4hsy say so because they know not, and do
not seek to know, that the extraordinary ODE
dienos and respect paid TO the priests word
\ founded not In the remotest manner upon
servlity or fear TOR o,r people never have been
VArvtls OF afraidl. but upon fond. flial love
and he implicit faith which our mountain
priests, By their priestly and fatherly quail
oues, have worthily enasndered In the hearts
OF tAoss who have never in vain looked to
them for sympathy. for help. for guidance
md for protection.
For the true sagart. when he takes charge Of
Q mountain parish. takes upon his shoulders
and upon his heart q great load. The sickness.
The troubles, the sorrows and griefs OF every
household. OF every child. in his domain are his
personal sorTows. and their little Joys are his
toys. Not merely for the souls, but for the
bodies Of every ono In his parish. responsibility
Velshs him down. He cannot, could not, shirk
his traditional duty. which Is truly 70 father his
dock In Ill thlnes-to brave any tyrant who
would Cypress them or unjust one who would
wrong them. to hRht for them. to suffer TOR
them, 70 lay down his life for them. II need be.
Benin. In his lovely ballad -Sasart Arun-
CBawenrtA aroon) gives q touching pi cture OF
~ tvstsslins Of the peasant for his priest:
Loyal and brave to you.
Ssgat arun
Yet be moi slave to you.
Nss, o.; Of Tear to you
Stand up 90 near 70 you
oehi out OF fear 70 you.
SsgsSt auni
Who, In the winters night
w sss1 &. : soia bias. did bite.
Sagan Arun-
Coms TO my cabin door
x AZ 81 me-. : ::isa nd s'i Poor:
easar afunf
who. on the marriage day.
oaGaft arun.
Nads my poor cabin gay,
VI: diS both laugh and sing.
the poor christening.
6agstt arunf
ochl yoa and only you.
SaGart aruni
For this I was true 70 you.
Saesrt arun.
IN love they'll never shake
Who for ould Ireland's sake
= Atrue stand and para did take.
SAgart aruni
: rhs0omsn Catholic dersy nowadays receive
their sducston at Maynooth College, near Dub
Nm. 10 was established q hundred years aso
and hnkoro thai time the how who felt called IN n