The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-22
ST. PATRICK EULOGIZED
 BY HON. ALEXANDER TROY

Ata. meeting of the Montgomery Dtvis- Ions. Ancient Order of HtbMutanA. on the night of St. Patricks Day, toast to St. Patrick was proposed. and Hon. Alexander Troy was called on to re- spond.
 MT, Troy delivered an interesting ad- dress and was frequentiy applauded-
 $''Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen" he the death of St. Patrick. Irizhmen have gathered together in every quarter of the civilized globe to pay respect to his memory The thoughts of the children of the Irish race are today turned to- ward The Emerald Isle of the Sea- where St. Patrick. more than 1,40O years ago, wrought his wonderful work. They turn to 1t, as their mother country, their na- tive land. and sigh for the old home.
 ~:Breathes there the man, with soul 50
 dead, Who never to himself hath said.
 This is my own, my native land! = Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand?
 |" If such there breathe. go mark him
 well,
 For him no minstrel raptures swell;
 High though his titles. proud his name. Boundless his wealth as wish can claim: Despite these titles, power and pelf.
 The wretch. concentered all in self,
 A<iNiu6s lOElcAt IdlT TenOWIl,
 And doubly dying, shall go down
 To the vile dust. from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
 Ireland was not always the land of poetry and music, of chivalry and song. It was land of barbarians and savages and so continued until the year 432, when our hero. for he was a hero, as well as a saint. goes there from Gaul as a Cath olic missionary, and a hallowing grace says the eloquent Baker. 'descends upon that land to expel forever from 1t every poisonous influence and inspire those vir- tues. which have made its manhood the synonym of valor, generosity and genius and its womanhood of truth. tenderness and purity
 Listening as you did this morning, to the beautiful and classical panegyric on St. Parick.-the Patron Saint of Ireland,- In which Rev. Father Kerrigan, the or ator. in chaste and choice language, and with eloQuence we all admire, if We do not envy, pictured to us. the life and character of this intrepid but saintly man. ence in your presence. than to attempt l to add my mite of tribute to his fame
 'At the time St. Patrick landed in Ireland, as we are told by historians, it tribes. most of which were evangelized by him, and that the method employed by him was that of dealing cautiously and gently with the old organism of the people.
 He was a saintly man and walked the ways of peace and sanct1ty, and with no weapon but the olive branch, broke up nd forever destroyed the power of the barbarous, cruel and ferocious native kings, with their still more heathenish and bloody laws, and planted the Cross so deeply in the virgin soil of Ireland that 1t was known throughout the civ lized world as the island of saints.' "A man who taught by example as well as by precept. and taught so thoroughly that he not only made Christians of a wild race of marauders and savages, but stamped his sanctity so deeply upon the times, that we, as well as millions and millions of the children of Adam, scat tered throughout the world, esteem 1t a privilege to celebrate his anniversary and do honor to him as saint. The life of this gentle and good man should be an instructive lesson to us
 '"There is implanted in every human heart a desire for immortality-that when the curtain has fallen and we forever cease to be an actor upon the stage of life, we may not altogether be forgot | ten,-that we may say or do something, | which will rescue our memory from ob- | livion. For this, poets have touched their harps and nations heard entranced'; or | ators have spoken, and thousands sat enchanted and charmed by the melody of | the human voice; painters have brushed ! the canvas and 1t seemed to speak; | sculptors have chiseled the marble and 1t
 seemed to breathe: warriors have given