Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-18
LECTURE 1T sT pArRlcK's
Peopls Fssm All Parts oftbs City in
 Attendancs.

St Patrick's church was crowded last night, people from all parts of the city being attracted there to hear the musical program and listen to the lee ture by the Rev Dr Cummings of Torrington. The efforts of the chsir, under the direction of Mrs G. X. Gib- son. was q rare musical treat, and II the numbers had been rendered. Ill a hall instead of at church the applause would have been deafening. The musical program was as follows:
 Chorus-"Hail Glorious Apostle" Bass Solo ............... J. M. pa'y Soprano Solo .... Miss NJ. Minnihan Tenor Solo .......... |. T. bowe Soprano Solo .... Miss Lila Loushhn Duet, Tenor and Contralto, MT ana
 Mrs r. r. Bowe.
 Duet Elizabeth and Sadie Dunn Soprano Solo :. Miss Mary Shanahan Bass Solo ....... fhiiip ac.aii Soprano Solo Miss Annle Soss Soprano Solo .... Miss Gertrude Reid Chorus-"The Minstrel Boy" .Choir The lecture by Father Cummings was one of the ablest ever delivered in Waterbury and should have been heard by everybody, especially those whose knowledge of St Patrick IS as meagre as their education in other re- spects pertaining to Irish history, pro fame and religious.
 ..St Patrick and History was the theme of the Rev Dr Cummings lecture. The speaker first described the personal character of the people and the times with which he had to deal in spreading the light of Christi anity. According to Dr Cummings St l Patrick prepared for his great mission l in France and the welcome tnat Pagan Ireland gave him proved to ms l mind that he had the help of the Al mighty with him His mission to Ire. land was the greatest ever achieved i, since the birth of Christianity because | it was without bloodshed. In no oth' er part of the world was religion ever received so hospitably.
 i Dr Cummings attributed St Pat ricks remarkable success to the tenn Derament of the Irish people and the 1 help he derived from God. The truth and beauty of the Catholic religion appealed to the people and they re l ceived it with the hospitality that ever to this day distinguishes the sons and daughters of Ireland the world over Those who were baptized. by St Pat rick became nuns and monks and east ern nations cried out everywhere fol monasteries and cOnvents of Ghese monks and nuns to be established among them.
 The stormy days of the Danish i'll vasion came and for three hundret years after the Irish were in aln,os constant woe. Yet the religion estab lishetl by St Patrick was not destroy el. furnishing another glowing in f stance of the firm hold the faith hat taken in the land.
 The faith was destined to live. fo
 after St Patrick. came Malachi, an'
 Brian Boru, whom Moore sings of II
 his melodies.
 The Norman and the Saxon invaded
 the country but the faith still live'
 and flourshed over their graves, ant
 those who came with them and sur
 viyed became as much Irish as tn
 Irish themselves.
 King Henry and Queen Elizabet
 could not crush the faith and thos
 whom they expelled from the co,intr !, spread it's tenets wherever" they wai : dered over Europe; Instead of crust
 ing the religion the nobles of the Eng ! fish army embraced it. Cromwell a so failed though he used the swor
 and the scaffold to suppress it. An thus another century went into tn
 past. at the close of which a Catholi parliament was established in Irt land, and the first law passed in 114: was that no one should suffer on at count of religion. the nOblest retalia
 ton ever recorded in the pages of his
 tory.
 O'Connelrs advent in the Irish DO
 itics brought complete emancipatio 31 to the Catholic in Ireland. He cotl ! invest his money and acquire propert
 as well as his protestant neighbor no, and so the world went along fairl
 well with him.
 But through all his trials and tril ulations. persecution and peace. war
 and calamities. he never lost the fait established by St Patrick. . Dr Cummings's audience was quit large and his lecture appreciated.
 Incidental to the lecture there was . concert.