Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-17
The Spirit of ST. Patrick, Like The Irish
Race, Has Spread All Over The Earth
St. Patrick Represents Both Kinds Of rsh Fighting
Spiritual and Physical His Birthday
Deserves Honor
To-day is st. Patrick S Day.


have Irish blood in their veins.
Some say that Patrick not born Ireland That IS prob
ably he CELT and his blood was Irish as his
ideas and his fighting character were Irish
As blood has been spilled all over the world in
fights all kinds the spirit Of St Patrick has been spread
all over world and many good battle it has fought
St Patrick the typical Irshman and whether he was born
the Green Island the shore of Normandy across the
channel makes difference,
He did not fear the Pagan Irish Kings or the Witches or
any danger
He travelled far; his teachings travelled farther
the snakes of Ireland the old legend
He drove the snakes of suspicion and black terror out of Irish
Kings and their subjects and that important
His writings and teachings and his words spread knoW
edge and better idea all over Europe
The Irish may well be proud of St Patrick celebrate his
birthday, their churches in his honor,
His quality that of the pioneer the quality that has built
up this country and every other country.
He pioneer in ideas taking the truth throughout the
lands pioneer his travels going straight preaching
condemnng and regulating until the wide stopped him.
And he had any idea that there anything the other
side of that wide he might have tried ahead of Columbus
and got here first
This newspaper congrauates United upon the
fact that many with St Patrck Celtic blood in their
have this country bringing his and honor with him.
1t is great blood that blood of the Irish 1t was working
wonders long before there any Irish Kings any Irish
cities
We look upon Ireland the home of the Irish Celt but
matter OF the whole OF there night
ing and the whole of the North has been their home.
Their blood has been kept pure that little Irish Island
To the English Channel England and then to
again Ireland than the ordinary advenurer cared
for And of the Ces wandering everywhere crossing every
and every mountain those that settled in Ireland retained
the purity their blood their strength their moral and physical
fighting character as they did not do elsewhere.
But those Ce of Ireland the the Cels that
lived the Balkan Mountains the Ce that gave the blue eyes
the Greeks the Ce that declined pay any compliment
Alexander the Great the Ces that afraid of nothing
cept that the sky would fall them
Some American citizens take view of st. Patrick
and the meaning of his birthday This day not merely
gous day clarifying of the greatest figures the oldest
and greatest church in the world.
The day of ST. Patrick the Irishman much re
gardless of religious faith.
St Patrick stands for courage for thought for energy
for fearessne in the face of oppression and danger
If the spirit of St Patrick has animated guided and upheld
thousands of religious teachers missionaries self sacrificing
and that spirit has also upheld and made he
of thousands of fighting from Scotland to the Argen
tine and from Constannope Europe and the At
lantic and across continent to San Francisco
Whoever honors st. Patrick honors noble courageous
fighting man in the best sense of the word
And he DESERVES honor.