The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1917-03-24
MORRIS CELEBRATES
ST. PATRIck'S DAY
Owing to IncIement Weather, st. Pat
rick's Day was Celebrated Sunday
Evening. Beautiful Program was
Rendered-Joseph L. Murphy De-
livered Inspiring Address.

Morris, Minn.-Practically every
body in Morris and vicinity attended
the big 81. Patrick's Day. celebration
here last Sunday evening, which was
postponed from Saturday. While the
roads were still drifted badly, never
theless there was a good attendance
from throughout the rural district.
The following was the program for
the evening:
1. Selection. by Miss Marg. Kohler.
g. Solo-Miss Eckes.
3. Recitation-Miss Marg. Mahoney.
4. Solo-Miss Mae MCGUIRE
5. Lecture-Wm. Murphy.
6. Solo-Mr. O'Connell.
Z. Selecti,n-Miss Kohler.
8. Slid~sS Life of Christ. -e...
Every number was rendered excel
lently and merited the applause given.
Mr.. Murphy created deep impression
with his able lecture and especially
when he said: 1T may not be any
harm, at the very outset of my ad-
! dress, to make on my own behalf and
on yours declaration of our fealty to
the stars and stripes. God knows it
should not be necessary. At every
critical moment in the history of our
country we sealed our loyalty with the
shedding of our blood. We were pres
ent at Bunker Hill and we stood guard
at Yorktown. During the Civil war,
when the liberties of this republic
were trembling in the balance, 100000
men of Irish birth and countless of
Irish descent were at the front and
they we'll sustained the historic dash
and brilliancy of the men of the fight
ing race. No need to tell you of more
recent events at Santiago and Vera
Cruz, and should the call be made
again, should this land of yours and
mine need men, aye and women, to
protect it then for us, and for every
one in whose veins the rich blood of
the Celt pulses, there shall be no song
but the one song, and no flag but the
one flag" In this opening of his ad.
dress the speaker received the endorse.
ment OF the entire audience by loud
acclaim.
Mr.. Murphy then spoke of the duties
of the Church of God in keeping the
anniversaries of her saints, from end
to end of the Christian year, and how
devoted the members are in giving
Thanksgiving and praise "And today
in obedience to that instinct, the scat
tered children of the Gael gather
round their affairs and recall the glories
of their apostle" he said. To-day the
sainted name of Patrick is on every
Irish lip and makes sweetest music or
every Irish ear"
Mr. Murphy then went on with his
lecture as follows:
with his pathetic story you are al
familiar, and, anyhow, it is for con
secrated lips to recall under the shadow
of the cross the incidents of his life
But surely we have reason to be prbut
of the fact that we have not lost on,
jot or title of the creed that Patricl
preached. God has been good to Vi
and he has not done thus with ever,
nation. Many a brilliant volume O
Church history, blaZoned with tn
name of saints and purpled with tn
blood of martyrs, has closed with tn
sad record of defectioN and decay. w
can go back through the early histor
of the Irish Church, when her sanctit
and her learning were a theme @
praise in hundred tongues, and wha
Irish heart will not throb with prid
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