Putnam patriot., 1912-03-15

IA W2J tremely hard 10 identify.
 Zg3 Some. however. claim that Rirk-Patrick, near Glasgow. in Scot land, took it's name from SC Patrick
 The saint vas born about 372 was captive and a slave Of the king Of DalaFadia, in Ireland, from 38s 10 395 went to Gaul and was there ordained priest was consecrated bishop and sent 10 Ireland as missionary in 432. and died at Saul, near Strangford Lough. County Down. Ulster. where many years before he had founded his church. March IT, 465. the day now sacred to bis memory.
 Ireland was then occupied by great number Of petty tribes, most Of whom were eyangelized by Patrick So well was the work accomplished that Ireland was known iB subsequent cen turies as the island of saints and scholars"
 The method employed was that of dealing cautiously and gently with the old organism Of the people The chief. tains were first won over and then through them their clans
 Of St Patrick himself much that has been related is fabulous. but his aus to6ioeraphieal confession and his epis- tle 10 Coroticus both of which are un- occasionally genuine. reveal a deyout, simple minded man. and most dis erect and energetic missionary.
 In his epistle he states that he was of noble birth and that his father, Calphurnieus, was a Roman deculro. His Mother. Conchessa or Concels. was the sister of St Martin Of Tours.
 The family Of the saint Is affirmed by the earliest authorities to have belonged 10 Britain, but whether the term refers 10 Great Britain or Brit tany or other parts Of France is not ascertained
 some Of the quaint stories told in Ireland about st Patrick would make the traveller imagine that the saint visited the island for the benefit of witty guides, or to promote mirth ln wet weather II is not remarkable that the subject of these stories for l6 centuries at countless hearths. has been regarded aud Is today bonored as 
 sfaefor that ever trod fine Irish soll and considering the versatility of the irIah character. it is not strange that there remains respecting the saint a .aat eyele af legends serious pathet- lc and profound
 II could not be otherwise Such a people could net have forgotten the he roic figure who led them forth iu the exodus from the bondage of pagan darkness In many instances doubt less has the tale become tradition. the foliage of an eyer active popular imagination. gathered around the cen tral stem of fact but the fact re- nained
 large tract of Irish history is dark: but the time of St. Patrick and the three centuries which succeeded N i. clearly, as depicted by history. time of joy. The chronicle Is song of gratitude and of hope. as befts the story of . nations conversion to Christianity.
 The higher legends. which. how ever do not profess to keep close to the original sources. except as TO- Rards their spirit and the manners of The time. are found in some ancient lives of St Patrick. the most valu- able of which Is the "Tripartite Life" asrribed by colgen 10 the century aft CT the saints death The work was lost for many centuries. but two cop ,es of it were .ediseoyered. one Of which has been recently translated by an eminent Irish scholar Mir Hen messy.
 The miracles however. recorded in the ~Tripartite iAiea are neither the most marvellous nor the most interest ing portion Of that fife
 Whether regarded from the religious or phllosophic pelnt os view few khlngs can be more instructive than ahs picture which il dellueates of hu- gnan nature ia the period of critical Transition and the dawning of the re- 9igion of peace rpon race barbaric, bat far, indeed. from savage.
 That warlike race regarded it doubt. fess as a notable cruelty when the new saith discouraged an amusement so popular as battle. But In many re bpeets they were iH sympathy with the faith. That race was one Of which khe affections as we'll as the passions retained an unhlunted ardor. and fshen nature Is stronger and less cor sapted 1t must feel the need Of some lining higher than itself. its interpreter ,snd its supplement. II prized the Family ties. like the Germans record ed by racitus, and, it could but have been drawn to Christianity