The Irish standard., 1920-04-03
Protestant Friends
of ireland

Especial to the Irish Standard.)
Ottawa, Can, March 2S.-An enor-
nous gathering greeted the Rt. Rev.
DR.. Frederic E. ]. Lloyd, President of
the Synod in the United States of the
Western Orthodox Church, who came
to Ottawa at the invitation of the St.
Patrick's Literary Society, to deliver
an Grafton in keeping with the festival
of st. Patrick.
Bishop Lloyd is Welshman, an OK
ford graduate, and for many years a
clergyman of the Anglican Church, in
which Communion he was elected
Bishop of Oregon. Having refused
this Episcopate, he was later chosen
as Bishop in the Orthodox Church,
and is devoting his time, with his
clergy, toward helping in the Ameri-
canization, along lines of civil ap.
proach, of the members of the Holy
Orthodox Church, who have become
citizens of the United States.
In his address Bishop Lloyd said, in
part: Il am Celt. My blood is the
same blood as that which flows in the
veins of the Irishman. The Scot is a
Celt. The Peasants Bretons are Celts.
1t is time that we Celts, of whatever
nationality, come together and form
a bond of union in a great Pan-Celtic
Society, that we may face the world
unashamed of our heritage and un-
afraid of our future. No Celt, whether
he be Welshman or Scotsman, can be
unashamed of his race while the moth
erland of the Celt and millions of his
brother Celts in ireland are kept in
bondage. would to God that the
great Celtic leader of today, fellow
countryman of my own, Lloyd George,
would turn his eyes away from that
tempting vision of world empire,
which is held only by armed force, to
that spiritual kingdom of world power,
which can be brought only through
the Brotherhood of Man
"In holy orthodox Russia today the
cry of the people is unheard in the
councils of the rulers of the world.
In the councils of rulers, also, the cry
of the Celt is sneered at. But these
sneers and these unhearing ears will
be held, in day of judgment, &C.
countable for the doom that will come
upon our civilization II in this great
day of liberation they who have the
keys to the city of freedom do not un.
lock all the doors and say, Enter
freely herein
There can be no Free League of
Nations that does not take into ac-
count every nation. There can be no
peace in the world that is. peace in
Gods mind, while one man, woman or
child is left in slavery. How can we
talk of peace, when millions of the
sons of God are held in bondage for
the exploitation Of the few? l pray
God tonight that England in this her
day may know the things that make
for her peace. I want to see England
loved and honored, as I have been
taught to love and honor her. No man
who has lived in the shadow of the
ancient halls Of Oxford where en-
shrined as in golden reliquary is
the glory Of the day that dawned at
Runnymede, can help but be jealous
for the continued glory Of the Anglo
Saxon race.
"The fear expressed by some that
Ireland free would be q menace to
England must come from an over
wrought mind. What have we to fear
from a friend? We have much to
fear from foe. Today Ireland is the
foe Of England. Let England do that
with Ireland which will make her a
friend, and never in all England's his.
tory will she have had 80 wonderful
q friend as she will have in free Ire.
land.
1T is acknowledged by the world
that the Celt is q lover Of God, wher
ever he goes and to whatever he may
turn his face. His passion for God has
carried him through dark days-sc
dark that it almost seemed as II God
had forsaken him. Through the Val
= ley of the Shadow of Death he has al
ways seen the days Of resurrection