The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-12-12

died in Ireland so the lamp of sanctiy never
burn low for want of woman's tender care
While may ponder with delight on the sancti-
fled lives of Irish virgins. there is no sphere in
which the Irish woman stands out more heroically
than in the home; than wife and mother.
''She never understood o constitution. political
or physical She never wanted to understand
political constitution The Irish. paradoxical as
1t may appear, are the most brOad-mnded and
most conservative people in the world. Broad
minded in the latitude they grant unto others; con-
sentative i'll their attachment to old forms and an
Gent teaching. The Celtic blood of Mary Sarsfed
Gilmour voiced the sentiments of Irish womanhood
when that gifted writer wrote:
I'VE ask not the poll nor the platform strong:
Words may ring out from the pen,
And leave us still enshrined our hearthstones,
The ideal women OF men,"
You might as we'll like King Canute of old.
try to roll back the pillows of the ocean with
command, as by any art or wiles Try to transform
the Irish woman into woman. She has no
wish to shirk the responsibilities of her sex or 10
raise the universe. There are no apostates of
motherhood in Ireland. Her higher conception of
duty is to be mother: her highest ambition to
be the mother of priest-to share in the Levitt
cal conservation of her SON To her maternity is all
honor and blasting: the franchise an insult and
a depreciation. We can understand her ON the bat
tleield tending the wounded; in the ,coister, pray
ing for the sinner; in the breaches of Limerick
ladies' political club? Never
Imagine-you Celtic people of imagination, i'm
agine, if you can, your mother and mine in party
caucus. or distributing ballots in a polling booth.
You laugh. They blush.
Ruthless iconoclasm of gross materialism thank
God we have one ideal you cannot touch.
1.-The sediment" as Boyle O'Reilly called it: mot
the wave of a SEX" can have the field without fear
of an Irish rival.
The would-be government of petticoats exctes
only her compassion; and deeply she detests and
abhors divorce, she find in this some excuse
for it. But the danger of divorce is not great for
those,
90" Who ape the manners of manly times
In this sterile and worthless life,
Till the of the future augments his crimes
With raid for Sabine wife,
seldom possess the maiden charms necessary to
win a spouse and compel a contract. A late writer
has said she can neither get vote nor voter.
The lrshwoman knows that she is ordained of
the Almighty the priestess of her own freside the
minister of her children the future lawmakers of
the country.
"Another light that shines on the bright side
of the history the characteristics and genius of my
people," said the eloquent Economical Father Tom
Burke, SIS the light of divine purity; the purity
that makes the Irish maiden as chaste as the nun
IN her cloister. [ say the Irish
IS the glory of Ireland; she is the glory of her
country How beautiful she is in the integrity of
virginia. purity! She has been taught by ST Pat
rick. who held up the Mother of God-the Virgin
Mother-as the very type of Irelands womanhood,
and of lrelands consecrated virgins as illustrated
IN the lives and characters of our Irish virgin
saints : : : The Catholic virgin, as pure as
the unstained snow; the Catholic mother, bearing
upon her brow the mingled beauty and maternity
and vlrginity is a model for the women of the
world
As our national mother 'has scattered her seed
Ger the lea, so, around the whole globe, her chill
dren with pathos, with harmony and with exulta-
ton swell the anthem of praise and homage to the
merits, the graees and the virtues that adorn and
ennoble the daughters of Fire. Banda, Fiola and
Scotia If my voice be inadequate to do justice to
such lofty theme it is. nevertheless, moved by
the most sincere desire to give public attestation
of the fact that the same immutabe and infallble
faith which 1471 years ago ST. Patrick brought to
ireland, dear old, unlettered Kerry grandmother
gave to me-
20 there the women of ireland
Binding with prayer the stars and with kindness the
Isle of the sea-
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