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 nsh Fighting
Spiritual and Physical. His Birthday
Deserves Honor
Congratulations to all that
To-day is St. Patrick S Day.

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