The Irish standard., 1920-05-29
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Prophecies of
Irish Freedom

Irish Freedom
Then with loud and joyous voice he
exclaimed: Now, o Lord, dost thou
dismiss thy servant in peace. 1t is
enough. The Church of God in Ire
land shall never fail, and tho long
shall it be desired, my country shall
one day stand forth in it's might, and
be fresh in beauty like the rose.'"
Cardinal Newman's Prophecy.
In the Catholic University Gazette,
June, 1854, DR.. Newman, afterwards
Cardinal Newman, uses these proph.
tic words: ....
II look towards a land both old and
young-old in its Christianity, young
in the promise of it's future; a nation
which received grace before the Sax
on came to Britain, and which has
never quenched it, Church which
comprehends in its history the rise
and fall of Canterbury and York.
which Augustine and Paulinus found,
and Pole and Fisher left behind them.
I contemplate a people which has had
a long night, and will have an in
evitable day. am turning my eyes
towards a hundred years to come, and
I dimly see the island I am gazing
on become the road of passage and
union between two hemispheres, and
the center Of the world. I see it's
Inhabitants rival Belgium in popu-
lousness, France in vigor, Spain in
enthusiasm; and see England taught
by advancing years to exercise in its
behalf that good sense which is her
characteristic towards every one else.
The capital of that prosperous and
hopeful land is situate in a beautiful
bay and near a romantic region; and
in it see fourishing university
which for while had to struggle with
fortune. but which, when it's first
founders and servants were dead and
gone, had successes far exceeding
their anxieties. Thither, as to sa-
cred soil the home of their fathers
and the fountain head of their Chris.
tianity, students are focking from
East, West and South, from America,
and Australia, and India, from Egypt
and Asia Minor. with the ease and
rapidity Of a locomotion not yet dis.
covered, and last, though not least,
from England - all speaking one
tongue. all owning one faith, all eager
for one large true wisdom; and
thence. when their stay is over, going
back again to carry peace to men of
good will over all the earth.''
That prophecy is consoling in many
respects-though the unilingual note
will give rise to Questionings-and
will ensure him who uttered it the
lasting respect Of the Irish people.
Father Tom eurke's Prophetic Vision,
In his lecture Genius and Charac.
ter" Father Tom Burke, with clear
prophetic vision, saw the things which
Irishmen of today know. and the real
ization Of which in the very near
future they instinctively feel. This
timely prophecy is thus spoken:
II lift up, as it were, the veil of
the future. I look with an anxious,
longing eye. What do I behold? l
may be in my grave. yet it will come!
It will come! What do I behold? I
may be sleeping beneath the sham
rocks, yet it will come! All hail, Irish
Columbia! All hail, the great and
mighty power that I see advancing
over the oceans waves in an uncon-
querable dotilla! Genius is there;
power is there; the fair figure of
Mary the Virgin is hanging at the
masthead! They come! They come
to save Ireland, our ancient Ireland;
and she no longer shall be enslaved.
A great and mighty race have risen
to elevate her, and to place her upon
a higher throne among the nations of
the earth"
ireland State Of the United States.
Father Toms prophetic eye was not
mistaken when he said further:
"1s there not every reason to sup
pose that, in that future. which we
cannot see today, but which lies before
us-America will be to the whole
world what Rome was in the ancient
days, what England was but few
years ago. the great storehouse of the
world; the great manufacturing pow.
or dispensing from out her mighty
bosom all the necessaries and all the
luxuries Of life to the whole world
around her! That she may be des-
tined-as believe she is destined
to rise rapidly into the gigantic form