Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-03-29

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St. Patrick, the Apostle of Ire
land. Reception by u. D. C.
st. Patrick, apostle of Ireland an,
patron of Australia, in whose homo
Irish people all oves the world eele
brate today, was horn, according t,
some historians, on the IL of March
373, but the place of his birth is I
moeted question. Italy, Scotland anc
France are among the cauntrie!
which claim him. It is stated that {
few. miles northwest of Glasgow
was his birth place. The SAME author
ity states his father was Galpornius
a deacon in the church, and "a man OF
means and standing. His baptisma
name was Sucat.
| When Patrick was 16 years old he
was captured by pirates and carried
to Ireland, where he was sold to Mil.
iuc, chieftain Of North nalaradia, in
the county Of Antrim, north Of Ire
land, and employed in tsnding cattle.
His sad condition drove him to con-
ISOLATION in God, and there learned to
wait on the divine will
| The international Encyclopedia
says, "He at last returned to Scot
land, but his desire was to preach the
gospel to the Irish, and he was
strengthened by visions and voices,
and he went to Auzerre in France to
be consecrated by Bishop Amator. 1t
was on this occasion that he assumed
the name of Patrick, by which he is
now exclusively known. In 405i he be-
gan. his missionary work in Ireland
and the rest of his life was spent in
incessant labors with much success.
He came to Ireland with a thorough
knowledge of the language of the
Irish people. 1t is stated that he
found no. Christians in Ireland and
left no heather. 1t is also stated that
he WAS the founder Of fhe Catholic
(not Roman Catholic) faith. 1t is
said that he died at Armaugh in
46s."
And here in st. Petersburg, as
well as an over the world the Irish
people gave his memory grand ova.i|
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this occasion. This was the FIRST time:
in my long life that ever witnessed
the Irish ceremony. 1t was grand; es-
pecially the Chant" that was some
thing else, Pm sure.
The U. D. C.'s of this City gave a
grand reception to the visiting
daughters and all the Confederate
veterans who came this way. The
place for the picnic was at Pass=a-
Grill, eight miles out from st. Peters
burg, right on the Beach of the Gulf
of Mexico. We were wheeled out
there in automobiles. There were
about eighty souls in the bunch, and
let me tell you, it was the iveliest
crowd that l have beer with since /
have been in the lowery land. We
had everything in common, and every
body knew everybody else before we
parted. But the grandest of all was
the golden sun set in the gulf. speak
especially of the moment before the
sun sinks, when his light turns pure
rose color and when the light falls
upon zenith covered with countless
cloud-forms of inconceivable deli
cacy, threads and flakes of vapor,
which would in common daylight be
pure snow white and which gave,
therefore, fair field to the tone OF
light. There is then no limit to the
multitude and no check to the inten-
sity of the hues assumed. The whole
sky from zenith to the horizon be-
comes one molten sea of color and
fire; every black bar turns into massy
gold, every ripple and wave into un-
sullied,. shadowless crimson and pur-
pie and scarlet, and colors for which
there are no words in language and
no ideas in the mind-things which
can only be conceived while they are
visible till they are lost imperceptibly
in it's crimson and gold. This is asun
set on the gulf as 1 beheld it on St:
Patrick's day:
]. RUSSELL WRIGHT.