The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-07-27

its manhood the synonym of valor, gen.
erosity and genius, as is its woman
hood Of truth, tenderness and purity.
The martyr people whom suffering
for their faith has consccrated! In
their native Emerald Isle of the sea.
despoiled by confiscations, enthralled
by injustice and tormented by tempta-
ton, they have, nevertheless, in cheer
full poverty, showed the world how to
live with honor and to die with faith"
And. when driven by oppression from
the green fields of their fathers, they
have also taught mankind the price
lesslress of their fidelity to the land of
their adoption.
For who does not know that wher-
ever the fate of the exile may have
cast them, there, in peace, civilizations
grandest monuments bear witness to
their mighty tolls, and in war free
dom's hottest battle grounds are wa
tered with their blood? My friends, l
need not name that hallowed country.
In the glowing words of Lacordaire-
these lips are not pure and ardent
enough to pronounce that name. But
heaven sees it, and every generous
country opens its heart to bid it's chill
dren welcome. Oh, heaven that sees!
oh, earth that knows! oh, all of you
purer and worthier than I! name that
country for me-name it--yes, say Ire.
land!
What darkening influence came there
from that church upon the spirit of thc
immortal Argonaut of 1852? Him
whom Catholic monks and monasteries
assisted in his mighty scheme, furnish
ing Trim, in his poverty, even the means
to purchase sufficiently decent apparel
to appear in at the court of Ferdinand
the Catholic, whose aid he desired to
invoke; who revercntly changed the
name of his ship. in which he was to
pillow an unknown sea, in search Of
new world. from Isabella, his patron
patron queen in heaven; whose glorious
history, craven on those brown doors
of the capitol at Washington, accom-
panied in every matchless panel by the
crucitiN, seems the history rather of Il
saint than of a hero: who, giving to
the world a treasure far more priceless
than tho trnllnp Honoo 1ontnI +hn ANS.
upon the virgin shores of the new
world which he had wOn-which he
placed under the protection of the
Queen Of Angels, and in honor of her
desired to name Maryland. A CONT
nent which here where liberty has
built an asylum for the oppressed of
all the world furnishes today a glori-
GUS proof that the highest prosperity
of the Catholic church is not inconsist-
ent with republican government and
the highest form of human liberty. And
which from many a river. bay and
headland, from the st. Lawrence to
the st. Mary's, from San Francisco to
st. Augustine, reminds us of what
America owes to the heroism and the
daring Of Catholic discoveries and cX-
plorers, who reveresl the saints above
all earthly potentates, and named these
countries for them rather than for
mortal kings and queens 1t would be
easy hut useless to swell the catalogue
Of Ibenefactions which this church.
through every obstacle and in every
age, has showered upon mankind.
My friends, that power which has
wrought all these blessings in the
world, and is constantly working them
whose priests. in trial and pestlence
whether on the Gauges or the Savan-
nah, show that the spirit of the martyr
still survives; whose holy nuns and
Sisters of Charity and Mercy, ignor.
ing sect and nationality. go about. iii
the beautiful language of another
stopping only where there is suffer,
ing and lingering only where 1t is in.
tense" to pay their angel visits. neither
few nor far between. to the lowly beds
Of sickness and suffering everywhere
providing shelter and education for the
lollSelcSs and the orphan: Il power that
always doing good, has stood SO many
sh"cks and survived so many storms
will cutlive and triumph over those
that now assail it. Doubt it never
II any human power could have over
thrown tho Papacy, and with it, of
course. the church that CHRIST had
built upon it, 1t would hnve been that
power which assalc.l it in the begin
ming of the present century, commence
ing with the murder of the priests and
ending with the Imprisonment of tly
Pope.
\ power welded in the end by the
supreme hand cf him who was com
lsinhtion Of The most gigantic faculties
that Were associated in one human
character; him. THAT incarnation OF
beth the ancient divinites Of war, who
possessed the brain Of Pallas and the
heart of Mars; whose genius spurnins
every obstacle. led the way to glory
and dominion across the &lrth's wild.
est wastes, and over natures dlzziest
hattlements; whose ad0ring legiol,s
following him to victory. startled with