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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Saint Patrick, by Heman White Chaplin
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+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
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+
+Title: Saint Patrick
+       1887
+
+Author: Heman White Chaplin
+
+Release Date: October 12, 2007 [EBook #23002]
+
+Language: English
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+Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SAINT PATRICK ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by David Widger
+
+
+
+
+
+SAINT PATRICK
+
+By Heman White Chaplin
+
+1887
+
+
+
+
+I.
+
+One of the places which they point out on Ship Street is the Italian
+fruit-shop on the corner of Perry Court, before the door of which, six
+years ago, Guiseppe Cavagnaro, bursting suddenly forth in pursuit of
+Martin Lavezzo, stabbed him in the back, upon the sidewalk. "All two"
+of them were to blame, so the witnesses said; but Cavagnaro went to
+prison for fifteen years. That was the same length of time, as it
+happened, that the feud had lasted.
+
+Nearly opposite is Sarah Ward's New Albion dance-hall. It opens directly
+from the street There is an orchestra of three pieces, one of which
+plays in tune. That calm and collected woman whom you may see rocking in
+the window, or sitting behind the bar, sewing or knitting, is not a city
+missionary, come to instruct the women about her; it is Sarah Ward,
+the proprietress. She knows the Bible from end to end. She was a
+Sunday-school teacher once; she had a class of girls; she spoke in
+prayer-meetings; she had a framed Scripture motto in her chamber, and
+she took the Teachers' Lesson Quarterly; she visited the sick; she
+prayed in secret for her scholars' conversion. How she came to change
+her views of life nobody knows,--that is to say, not everybody knows.
+And still she is honest. It is her pride that sailors are not drugged
+and robbed in the New Albion.
+
+A few doors below, and on the same side of the street, is the dance-hall
+that was Bose King's-. It is here that pleasure takes on its most sordid
+aspect. If you wish to see how low a white woman can fall, how coarse
+and offensive a negro man can be, you will come here. There is an
+inscription on the bar, in conspicuous letters,--"Welcome Home."
+
+By day it is comparatively still in Ship Street. Women with soulless
+faces loll stolidly in the open ground-floor windows. There are few
+customers in the bar-rooms; here and there two or three idlers shake for
+drinks. Policemen stroll listlessly about, and have little to do. But
+at nightfall there is a change; the scrape of fiddles, the stamp of
+boot-heels, is heard from the dance-halls. Oaths and boisterous laughter
+everywhere strike the ear. Children, half-clad, run loose at eleven
+o'clock. Two policemen at a corner interrogate a young man who is hot
+and excited and has no hat. He admits that he saw three men run from the
+alley-way and saw the sailor come staggering out after them, but he does
+not know who the men were. The policemen "take him in," on suspicion.
+
+It is here that the Day-Star Mission has planted itself. Its white flag
+floats close by the spot where Martin Lavezzo fell, with the long knife
+between his shoulder-blades. Its sign of welcome is in close rivalry
+with the harsh strains from Sarah Ward's and the lighted stairway to
+Bose King's saloon. It stands here, isolated and strange, an unbidden
+guest. It is a protest, a reproof, a challenge, an uplifted finger.
+
+But while, to a casual glance, the Day-Star Mission is all out of place,
+it has, nevertheless, its following. On Monday and Thursday afternoons a
+troop of black-eyed, jet-haired Portuguese women, half of whom are
+named Mary Jesus, flock in to a sewing-school. On Tuesdays and Fridays
+American, Scotch, and Irish women, from the tenement-houses of the
+quarter, fill the settees, to learn the use of the needle, to enjoy
+a little peace, and to hear reading and singing; and occasionally the
+general public of the vicinity are invited to an entertainment.
+
+It was a February afternoon; at the Mission building the board were in
+monthly session. The meeting had been a spirited one. A proposition
+to amend the third line of the fourth by-law, entitled "Decorum in
+the Hall," by inserting the word "smoking," had been debated and had
+prevailed. A proposition to buy a new mangle for the laundry had been
+defeated, it having been humorously suggested that the women could
+mangle each other. Other matters of interest had been considered.
+
+Finally, as the hour for adjournment drew near, a proposition was
+brought forth, appropriate to the season. Saint Patrick's Day was
+approaching. It was to many a day of temptation, particularly in the
+evening. Would it not be a good plan to hold out the helping hand,
+in the form of a Saint Patrick's Day festival, with an address, for
+example, upon Saint Patrick's life, with Irish songs and Irish readings?
+Such an entertainment would draw; it would keep a good many people out
+of the saloons. Such was the suggestion.
+
+The proposition excited no little interest. Ladies who had begun to put
+on their wraps sat down again. To one of the board, a clergyman, who had
+lately been lecturing on "Popery the People's Peril," the proposition
+was startling. It looked toward the breaking down of all barriers; it
+gave Romanism an outright recognition. Another member, a produce-man,
+understood,--in fact he had read in his denominational weekly,--that
+Saint Patrick could be demonstrated to have been a Protestant, and
+he suggested that that fact might be "brought out." Others viewed
+the matter in that humorous light in which this festival day commonly
+strikes the American mind.
+
+The motion prevailed. Even the anti-papistic clergyman was comforted,
+apparently, at last, for he was heard to whisper jocosely to his
+left-hand neighbor: "Saint Patrick's Day in the Morning!"
+
+A committee, with the produce-man at the head, was appointed to select a
+speaker, and to provide music and reading. It was suggested that perhaps
+Mr. Wakeby and Mrs. Wilson-Smith would volunteer, if urged,--their
+previous charities in this direction had made them famous in the
+neighborhood. Mr. Wakeby to read from "Handy Andy;" Mrs. Wilson-Smith to
+sing "Kathleen Mavourneen,"--there would not be standing-room!
+
+So finally unanimity prevailed, and with unanimity, enthusiasm.
+
+The committee met, and the details were settled. The chairman quietly
+reserved to himself, by implication, the choice of a speaker. He knew
+that it would be an audience hard to hold. The occasion demanded a man
+of peculiar gifts. Such a man, he said to himself, he knew.
+
+
+
+
+II.
+
+The single meeting-house of L------ stands on the main street, with its
+tall spire and its two tiers of gray-blinded windows. Beside it is the
+mossy burial-ground, where prim old ladies walk on Sunday afternoons,
+with sprigs of sweet-william.
+
+Across the street, and a little way down the road, is the square white
+house with a hopper-roof, which an elderly, childless widow, departing
+this life some forty years ago, thoughtfully left behind her for a
+parsonage. It is a pleasant, home-like house, open to sun and air, and
+the pleasantest of all its rooms is the minister's study. It is an upper
+front chamber, with windows to the east and the south. There is nothing
+in the room of any value; but whether the minister is within, or is
+away and is represented only by his palm-leaf dressing-gown, somehow the
+spirit of peace seems always to abide there.
+
+There is the ancient desk, which the minister's children, when they
+were little, used to call the "omnibus," by reason of a certain vast and
+capacious drawer, the resort of all homeless things,--nails, wafers, the
+bed-key, curtain-fixtures, carpet-tacks, and dried rhubarb. Perhaps it
+was to this drawer that the minister's daughter lately referred,
+when she said that the true motto was, "One place for everything, and
+everything in that one place."
+
+Over the chimney-piece hangs a great missionary map, showing the
+stations of the different societies, with a key at one side. This blue
+square in Persia denotes a missionary post of the American Board of
+Commissioners; that red cross in India is an outpost of a Presbyterian
+missionary society; this green diamond in Arrapatam marks a station of
+the Free Church Missionary Union. As one looks the map over, he seems to
+behold the whole missionary force at work. He sees, in imagination, Mr.
+Elmer Small, from Augusta, Maine, preaching predestination to a
+company of Karens, in a house of reeds, and the Rev. Geo. T. Wood, from
+Massachusetts, teaching Paley in Roberts College at Constantinople.
+
+Thus the whole Christian world lies open before you.
+
+Pinned up on one of the doors is the Pauline Chart. Have you never seen
+the Pauline Chart? It was prepared in colored inks, by Mr. Parker, a
+theological student with a turn for penmanship, and lithographed,
+and was sold by him to eke out the avails of what are inaptly termed
+"supplies." You would find it exceedingly convenient. It shows in a
+tabulated form, for ready reference, the incidents of Saint Paul's
+career, arranged chronologically. Thus you can find at a glance the
+visit to Berea, the stoning at Lystra, or the tumult at Ephesus. Its
+usefulness is obvious. Over the desk is a map of the Holy Land, with
+mountain elevations.
+
+The walls of the room are for the most part hidden by books. The shelves
+are simple affairs of stained maple, covered heavily with successive
+coats of varnish, cracked, as is that of the desk, by age and heat. The
+contents are varied. Of religious works there are the Septuagint, in two
+fat little blue volumes, like Roman candles; Conant's Genesis; Hodge
+on Romans; Hackett on Acts, which the minister's small children used
+to spell out as "Jacket on Acts;" Knott on the Fallacies of the
+Antinomians; A Tour in Syria; Dr. Grant and the Mountain Nestorians, and
+six Hebrew Lexicons, singed by fire,--a paternal inheritance.
+
+There are a good many works, too, of general literature, but rather
+oddly selected, as will happen where one makes up his library chiefly by
+writing book-notices: Peter Bayne's Essays; Coleridge; the first
+volume of Masson's Life of Milton; Vanity Fair; the Dutch Republic; the
+Plurality of Worlds; and Mommsen's Rome. That very attractive book in
+red you need not take down; it is only the history of Norwalk, Conn.,
+with the residence of J. T. Wales, Esq., for a frontispiece; the cover
+is all there is to it. Finally, there are two shelves of Patent Office
+Reports, and Perry's Expedition to Japan with a panoramic view of Yeddo.
+This shows that the minister has numbered a congressman among his flock.
+
+It is here that Dr. Parsons is diligently engaged, this cold March
+afternoon, to the music of his crackling air-tight stove. He is deeply
+absorbed in his task, and we may peep in and not disturb him. He has a
+large number of books spread out before him; but looking them over, we
+miss Lange's Commentaries, Bengel's Gnomon, Cobb on Galatians,--those
+safe and sound authorities always provided with the correct view.
+
+The books which lie before the Doctor seem all to, deal with a Romish
+Saint, and, of all the saints in the world, Saint Patrick. In full sight
+of his own steeple, from which the bell is even now counting out
+the sixty-nine years of a good brother just passed away in hope of a
+Protestant heaven,--tolling out the years for the village housewives,
+who pause and count; under such hallowing influences,--beneath, as it
+were, the very shadow of the Missionary Map and the Pauline Chart, and
+with a gray Jordan rushing down through a scarlet Palestine directly
+before him, suggestive of all good things; with Knott on the Fallacies
+at his right hand, and with Dowling on Romanism on his left, the Doctor
+is actually absorbed in Papistical literature. Here are the works of Dr.
+Lanigan and Father Colgan and Monseigneur Moran. Here is the "Life and
+Legends of Saint Patrick," illustrated, with a portrait in gilt of
+Brian Boru on the cover. Here are the Tripartite Life, in Latin, and the
+saint's Confession, and the Epistle to Co-roticus, the Ossianic Poems,
+and Miss Cusack's magnificent quarto, which the Doctor has borrowed from
+the friendly priest at the factory village four miles away, who borrowed
+it from the library of the Bishop to lend to him.
+
+Perhaps you have never undertaken to prepare a life of Saint Patrick.
+If so, you have no idea of the difficulties of the task. In the first
+place, you must settle the question whether Saint Patrick ever existed.
+And this is a disputed point; for while there are those, like Father
+Colgan, whose clear faith accepts Saint Patrick just as he stands in
+history and tradition, yet, on the other hand, there are sceptics, like
+Ledwick, who contend that the saint is nothing but a prehistoric myth,
+floating about in the imagination of the Irish people.
+
+Having settled to your satisfaction that Patrick really lived, you
+must next proceed to fix the date of his birth; and here you enter upon
+complicated calculations. You will probably decide to settle first, as a
+starting-point, the date of the saint's escape from captivity; and to
+do this you will have to reconcile the fact that after the captivity he
+paid a friendly visit to his kinsman, Saint Martin of Tours, who died in
+397, with the fact that he was not captured until 400.
+
+Next you will come to the matter of the saint's birthplace; and this is
+a delicate question, for you will have to decide between the claims of
+Ireland, of Scotland, and of France; and you will very probably find
+yourself finally driven to the conclusion--for the evidence points that
+way--that Saint Patrick was a Frenchman.
+
+Next comes the question of the saint's length of days; and if you
+attempt to include only the incidents of his life of which there can be
+no possible doubt, you will stretch his age on until you will probably
+fix it at one hundred and twenty years.
+
+But when you have settled the existence, the date of birth, and the
+nationality of Saint Pat-rick, you are still only upon the threshold
+of your inquiries; for you next find before you for examination a vast
+variety of miracles, accredited to him, which you must examine, weeding
+out such as are puerile and are manifestly not well established, and
+retaining such as are proved to your satisfaction. You will be struck
+at once with the novel and interesting character of some of them. Prince
+Caradoc was changed into a wolf. An Irish magician who opposed the saint
+was swallowed by the earth as far as his ears, and then, on repentance,
+was instantly cast forth and set free. An Irish pagan, dead and long
+buried, talked freely with the saint from out his turf-covered grave,
+and charitably explained where a certain cross belonged which had been
+set by mistake over him. The saint was captured once, and was exchanged
+for a kettle, which thenceforth froze water over the fire instead of
+boiling it, until the saint was sent back and the kettle returned.
+Ruain, son of Cucnamha, Amhalgaidh's charioteer, was blind. He went in
+haste to meet Saint Patrick, to be healed. Mignag laughed at him. "My
+troth," said Patrick, "it would be fit that you were the blind one." The
+blind man was healed and the seeing one was made blind; Roi-Ruain is the
+name of the place where this was done. Patrick's charioteer was looking
+for his horses in the dark, and could not find them; Patrick lifted up
+his hand; his five fingers illuminated the place like five torches, and
+the horses were found.
+
+You see that one has a good deal to go through who undertakes to prepare
+a life of Saint Patrick.
+
+But our thoughts have wandered from Dr. Parsons. He has gathered the
+books before him with great pains, from public and private libraries,
+and he religiously meant to make an exhaustive study of them all; but
+sermons and parish calls and funerals, and that little affair of
+Mrs. Samuel Nute, have forced him, by a process of which we all know
+something, to forego his projected subsoil ploughing and make such hasty
+preparation as he can.
+
+He has read the Confession and the Epistle to Coroticus, and he has
+glanced over the "Life and Legends," reading in a cursory way of the
+leper's miraculous voyage; of the fantastic snow; of the tombstone that
+sailed the seas; of the two trout that Patrick left to live forever in a
+well,--
+
+     "The two inseparable trout,
+     Which would advance against perpetual streams,
+     Without obligation, without transgression--
+     Angels will be along with them in it."
+
+And being very fond of pure water himself, the Doctor is touched by
+Patrick's lament when far away from the well Uaran-gar:--
+
+     "Uaran-gar, Uaran-gar!
+     O well, which I have loved, which loved me!
+     Alas! my cry, O my dear God,
+     That my drink is not from the pure well of Uaran-gar!"
+
+But finally he has settled down, as most casual students will, to the
+sincere and charming little sketch by William Bullen Morris,--"Saint
+Patrick, the Apostle of Ireland." He is reading it now by the east
+window, holding the book at arm's-length, as is his wont.
+
+The theme is new to him. There opens up a fresh and interesting field.
+The dedication of the little book strikes his imagination: "To the
+Members of the Confraternity of Saint Patrick, established at the London
+Oratory, who, with the children of the saint in many lands, are the
+enduring witnesses of the faith which seeth Him who is invisible."
+
+He is interested in the motto on the title-page,--"_En un mot, on y voit
+beaucoup le caractère de S. Paul_," and in the authorization,--"_Nihil
+obstat_. E. S. Keagh, Cong. Orat." "_Imprimatur_, + Henricus Eduardus,
+Card."
+
+The Doctor looks through the book in order. First, the introduction; and
+here he considers the questions--First, was there in fact such a man
+as Saint Patrick? Second, what was his nationality? Third, when was he
+born: and, herein, does the date of his escape from captivity conflict
+with the date of his visit to his kinsman, Saint Martin of Tours?
+Fourth, to what age did he live? Fifth, where and by whom was he
+converted? Sixth, are his miracles authentic? and so forth.
+
+After this introductory study the book takes up the saint's life in
+connected order. Patrick was the son of a Roman decurio. From his
+earliest days wonders attended him. When he was an infant, and was
+about to be baptized, it happened that no water was to be had for the
+sacrament; whereupon, at the sign of the cross, made by the priest
+with the infant's hand upon the earth, a fountain gushed forth from the
+ground, and the priest, who was blind, anointing his own eyes with the
+water, received his sight.
+
+As Patrick grew older, wonders multiplied. He came as an apostle of the
+faith to Strangford Lough. Dichu, the prince of that province, forewarned
+by the Druids, raised his sword at Patrick; but instantly his hand was
+fixed in the air, as if carved of stone; then light came to Dichu's
+soul, and from a foe he became a loving disciple.
+
+Then comes the story of the fast upon the mountain. It was on the height
+ever since called Cruachan Patrick, which looks to the north upon
+Clew Bay, and to the west on the waters of the Atlantic. It was Shrove
+Saturday, a year and a little more from the apostle's first landing
+in Ireland. Already he had carried the gospel from the eastern to the
+western sea. But his spirit longed for the souls of the whole Irish
+nation. Upon the mountain he knelt in prayer, and as he prayed, his
+faith and his demands assumed gigantic proportions. An angel came down
+and addressed him. God could not grant his requests, the message ran,
+they were too great. "Is that his decision?" asked Patrick. "It is,"
+said the angel. "It may be his," said Patrick, "it is not mine; for my
+decision is not to leave this cruachan until my demands are granted."
+
+The angel departed. For forty days and forty nights Patrick fasted and
+prayed amid sore temptations. The blessing must fall upon all his poor
+people of Erin. As he prayed, he wept, and his cowl was drenched with
+his tears.
+
+At last the angel returned and proposed a compromise. The vast Atlantic
+lay before them. Patrick might have as many souls as would cover its
+expanse as far as his eyes could reach. But he was not satisfied with
+that; his eyes, he said, could not reach very far over those heaving
+waters; he must have, in addition, a multitude vast enough to cover the
+land that lay between him and the sea. The angel yielded, and now bade
+him leave the mountain. But Patrick would not. "I have been tormented,"
+he said, "and I must be gratified; and unless my prayers are granted
+I will not leave this cruachan while I live; and after my death there
+shall be here a care-taker for me."
+
+The angel departed. Patrick went to his offering.
+
+At evening the angel returned. "How am I answered?" asked Patrick.
+"Thus," said the angel: "all creatures, visible and invisible, including
+the Twelve Apostles, have entreated for thee,--and they have obtained.
+Strike thy bell and fall upon thy knees: for the blessing shall be on
+all Erin, both living and dead." "A blessing on the bountiful King that
+hath given," said Patrick; "now will I leave the cruachan."
+
+It was on Holy Thursday that he came down from the mountain and returned
+to his people.
+
+
+
+
+III.
+
+One afternoon at about this time you might have seen Mr. Cole,
+the missionary of the Day-Star,--a small, lithe man, with a red
+beard,--making his way up town. He walked rapidly, as he always did, for
+he was a busy man.
+
+He was an exceedingly busy man. During the past year, as was shown by
+his printed report, he had made 2,014 calls, or five and one-half
+calls a day; he had read the Scriptures in families 792 times; he had
+distributed 931,456 pages of religious literature; he had conversed on
+religious topics with 3,918 persons, or ten and seven-tenths persons per
+day, Sabbaths included. It was perhaps because he was so busy that there
+was complaint sometimes that he mixed matters and took things upon his
+shoulders which belonged to others.
+
+Mr. Cole's rapid pace soon brought him to a broad and pleasant
+cross-street; he went up the high steps of one of the houses, rang the
+bell, and was admitted.
+
+Rev. Mr. Martin was in his study, and the missionary was shown up.
+Precisely what the conversation was has not been reported; but certain
+it is that the next day after Mr. Cole's call, Mr. Martin began to
+prepare himself for an address upon the life of Saint Patrick. It was an
+entirely new topic to him; but he soon found himself in the full current
+of the stream, considering--First, did such a man really exist, or is
+Saint Patrick a mere myth, floating in the imagination of the Irish
+people? Second, what was his nationality? Third, where was he born, and,
+herein, how are we to reconcile his escape from captivity in 493, with
+his visit to his kinsman, Saint Martin of Tours, after his escape from
+captivity, in 490? Fourth, to what age did he live? Fifth,--and so
+forth.
+
+Mr. Martin had begun his labors by taking down his encyclopaedia and
+such books of reference as he had thought could help him, and had
+succeeded so far as to get an outline of the saint's life, and to
+find mention of several works which treated of this topic. There were
+Montalembert's "Monks of the West," and Dr. O'Donovan's "Annals of the
+Four Masters," the works of Monseigneur Moran and Father Colgan, the
+Tripartite Life, and a certain "magnificent quarto" by Miss Cusack. All
+these and many more he had hoped to find in the different libraries of
+the city. But great had been his surprise, on visiting the libraries,
+to find that the books he wanted were invariably out. It was a little
+startling, at first, to come upon this footprint in the sand; but a
+little reflection set the feeling at rest. The subject was an odd one
+to him, to be sure, but there were thousands of people in the city who
+might very naturally be concerned in it, particularly at this time, when
+Saint Patrick's Day was approaching. None the less the fact remained
+that the books he wanted--scattered through two or three libraries--were
+always out.
+
+As he stepped out from the Free Library into the street, it occurred
+to him to go to a Catholic bookstore near at hand to look for what he
+wanted.
+
+It was a large, showy shop, with Virgins and crucifixes and altar
+candelabra's in the windows, and pictures of bleeding hearts. He went in
+and stood at the counter. A rosy-faced servant-girl, with a shy, pleased
+expression, was making choice of a rosary. A young priest, a few steps
+away, was looking at an image of Saint Joseph.
+
+The salesman left the servant-girl to her hesitating choice, and turned
+to Mr. Martin.
+
+"What have you," asked Mr. Martin, with a slightly conscious tone, "upon
+the life of Saint Patrick?"
+
+The priest turned and looked; but the salesman, with an unmoved
+countenance, went to the shelves and selected two volumes and laid
+them in silence on the counter. One was the "Life and Legends of Saint
+Patrick" with a picture in gilt of Brian Boru on the cover. The other
+was "Saint Patrick, the Apostle of Ireland," by William Bullen Morris,
+Priest of the Oratory. They were both green-covered.
+
+Early in the evening Mr. Martin settled down by his study fire to his
+new purchases. First he took up the "Life and Legends." He read the
+saint's own Confession, and the Letter to Co-roticus, and looked through
+the translation of the Tripartite Life, with its queer mixture of Latin
+and English: "Prima feria venit Patricius ad Talleriam, where the regal
+assembly was, to Cairpre, the son of Niall." "Interrogat autem Patricius
+qua causa venit Conall, and Conall related the reason to Patrick."
+
+He glanced over the miracles and wonders of which this book was full.
+But before very long he laid it aside and took up the Life by William
+Bullen Morris, Priest of the Oratory, and decided that he must depend
+upon that for his preparation.
+
+It was late at night. It was full time to stop reading; but it laid
+strong hold of his imagination,--this strange, intense, and humorous
+figure, looming up all new to him from the mists of the past. He read
+the book to the end; he read how the good Saint Bridget foretold the
+apostle's death; how two provinces contended for his remains, and how a
+light shone over his burial-place after he was laid to rest.
+
+It was very late when Mr. Martin finished the book and laid it down.
+
+Thus it happens that the Rev. Dr. Parsons and the Rev. Mr. Martin are
+both preparing themselves at the same time on the life of Saint Patrick,
+from this one brief book by William Bullen Morris, Priest of the
+Oratory.
+
+
+
+
+IV.
+
+Saint Patrick's Day has come and is now fast waning. The sun has sunk
+behind the chimney-stack of the New Albion dance-hall; the street lamps
+are lighted and are faintly contending against the dull glow of the late
+afternoon.
+
+There is a lull between day and evening. All day there has been a stir
+in the city. There has been a procession in green sashes, with harps on
+the banners,--a long procession, in barouches, on horseback, and afoot.
+There have been impassioned addresses before the Hibernian Society and
+the Saint Peter's Young Men's Irish Catholic Benevolent Association.
+There has been more or less celebration in Ship Street.
+
+The evening advances. It is seven o'clock. Strains of invitation issue
+from all the dance-halls. Already the people have begun to file in to
+the Day-Star Mission. The audience-room is on the street floor. The
+missionary stands at the open door, with anxious smiles, urging decorum.
+A knot of idlers on each side of the doorway, on the sidewalk, comment
+freely on him and on those who enter. Every moment or two a policeman
+forces them back.
+
+At a quarter of seven a preliminary praise-meeting begins. Singing from
+within jars against the fiddling from over the way. You hear at once
+"Come to Jesus just now!" and "Old Dan Tucker."
+
+Already the seats are filled,--eight in a settee; those who come
+now will have to stand. Still, people continue to file in: laborers,
+Portuguese sewing-women, two or three firemen in long-tailed coats
+and silver buttons, from Hook and Ladder Six, in the next block;
+gross-looking women, _habitués_ of the Mission, with children; women
+who are _habitués_ of no mission; prosperous saloon-keepers; one of the
+councilmen of the ward,--he is a saloon-keeper too.
+
+Dr. Parsons's train brought him to town in good season. He passed in
+with other invited guests at the private door, and he has been upon the
+platform for ten minutes. His daughter is beside him; ten or a dozen of
+his parishioners, who have come too, occupy seats directly in front.
+
+The platform seats are nearly all taken; it is time to begin. The
+street-door opens and a passage is made for a new-comer. It is Mr.
+Martin. A contingent from his church come with him and fill the few
+chairs that are still reserved about the desk.
+
+Now all would appear to be ready; but there is still a few moments'
+pause. The missionary is probably completing some preliminary
+arrangements. The audience sit in stolid expectation.
+
+Dr. Parsons, from beneath his eyebrows, is studying the faces before
+him. In this short time his address has entirely changed form in his
+mind. It was simple as he had planned it; it must be simpler yet But he
+has felt the pulse of the people before him. He feels that he can hold
+them, that he can stir them.
+
+Meanwhile a whispered colloquy is going on, at the rear of the platform,
+between the missionary and the chairman of the committee for the
+evening. The missionary appears to be explanatory and apologetic,
+the chairman flushed. In a moment a hand is placed on Dr. Parsons's
+shoulder. He starts, half rises, and turns abruptly.
+
+There has been, it seems, an unfortunate misunderstanding. Through some
+mistake Mr. Martin has been asked to make the address upon the life
+of Saint Patrick, and has prepared himself with care. He is one of
+the Mission's most influential friends; his church is among its chief
+benefactors. It is an exceedingly painful affair; but will Dr. Parsons
+give way to Mr. Martin?
+
+So it is all over. The Doctor takes his seat and looks out again upon
+those hard, dreary faces,--his no longer. He has not realized until
+now how he has been looking forward to this evening. But the vision has
+fled. No ripples of uncouth laughter, no ready tears. No reaching these
+dull, violated hearts through the Saint whom they adore: that privilege
+is another's.
+
+But the chairman again draws near. Will Dr. Parsons make the opening
+prayer?
+
+The Doctor bows assent. He folds his arms and closes his eyes. You can
+see that he is trying to concentrate his thoughts in preparation for
+prayer. It is doubtless hard to divert them from the swift channel in
+which they have been bounding along.
+
+Now all is ready. The missionary touches a bell, the signal for silence.
+
+The Doctor rises. For a moment he stands looking over the rows on rows
+of hardened faces,--looking on those whom he has so longed to reach. He
+raises his hand; there is a dead silence, and he begins.
+
+It was inevitable, at the outset, that he should refer to the occasion
+which had brought us together. It was natural to recall that we were
+come to celebrate the birth of an uncommon man. It was natural to
+suggest that he was no creature of story or ancient legend, floating
+about in the imagination of an ignorant people, but a real man like
+us, of flesh and blood. It was natural to add that he was a man born
+centuries ago; that the scene of his labors was the green island across
+the sea, where many of us now present had first seen the light. It was
+natural to give thanks for that godly life which had led three nations
+to claim the good man's birthplace. It was natural to suggest that
+if about the sweet memories of this man's life fancy had fondly woven
+countless legends, we might, with a discerning eye, read in them all
+the saintly power of the man of God. What though his infant hand may
+not have caused earthly waters to gush from the ground and heal the
+blindness of the ministering priest, nevertheless doth childhood ever
+call forth a well-spring of life, giving fresh sight to the blind,--to
+teacher and taught.
+
+But why go on? Who has not heard, again and again, the old-fashioned
+prayer wherein all is laid forth, in outline, but with distinctness! We
+give thanks for this. May this be impressed upon our hearts. May this
+lead us solemnly to reflect.
+
+The heart that is full must overflow,--if not in one way, then in
+another.
+
+Mr. Martin has not been told about Dr. Parsons. He sits and listens as
+the Doctor goes on in the innocence of his heart, pouring forth with
+warmth and fervor the life of the saint according to William Bullen
+Morris, Priest of the Oratory,--pouring forth in unmistakable detail Mr.
+Martin's projected discourse.
+
+The prayer is ended; a hymn is sung, and then the missionary presents
+to the audience the Rev. Mr. Martin, whom they are always delighted to
+hear; he will now address them upon the life of Saint Patrick.
+
+Mr. Martin rises. He takes a sip of water. He coughs slightly. He passes
+his handkerchief across his lips. So far all is well. But the prayer is
+in his mind. Moreover, he unfortunately catches his wife's eye, with a
+suggestion of suppressed merriment in it.
+
+What does he say? What can he say? There are certain vague lessons from
+the saint's virtues; some applications of what the Doctor has set forth;
+that is all. Saint Patrick was sober; we should be sober. Saint Patrick
+was kind; we should be kind.
+
+Even his own parishioners admitted that he had not been "happy" on this
+particular occasion.
+
+But at the close of the meeting Dr. Parsons received a compliment. As
+he descended from the platform, Mr. John Keenan, who kept the
+best-appointed bar-room on the street, advanced to meet him. Mr. Keenan
+was in an exceedingly happy frame of mind. He grasped the Doctor's hand.
+"I wish, sir," he said, with a fine brogue, "to congratulate you upon
+your very eloquent prayer. It remind me, sir,--and I take pleasure to
+say it,--it remind me, sir, of the Honorable John Kelly's noble oration
+on Daniel O'Connell."
+
+Late that evening the Doctor stood at his study-window, looking out for
+a moment before retiring to rest. There was no light in the room, and
+the maps and the charts and the tall book-shelves were only outlines.
+There was a glimmer from a farm-house two miles away, where they were
+watching with the dead.
+
+The Doctor's daughter came in with a light in her hand to bid her father
+good-night.
+
+"What did you think, Pauline," he said to her, "of Mr. Martin's talk?"
+It had not been mentioned till now.
+
+Pauline hardly knew what to think. She knew that it was not what the
+Rev. Dr. Parsons would have given them! But, honestly, what did her
+father think of it?
+
+The Doctor mused for a moment; then he gave his judgment. "I think," he
+said, "that it showed a certain lack of preparation."
+
+
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Saint Patrick, by Heman White Chaplin
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+Title: Saint Patrick
+       1887
+
+Author: Heman White Chaplin
+
+Release Date: October 12, 2007 [EBook #23002]
+Last Updated: December 17, 2012
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SAINT PATRICK ***
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+Produced by David Widger
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+</pre>
+    <div style="height: 8em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h1>
+      SAINT PATRICK
+    </h1>
+    <h2>
+      By Heman White Chaplin<br /> <br />
+    </h2>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      Contents
+    </h2>
+    <table summary="" style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto">
+      <tr>
+        <td>
+          <p class="toc">
+            <a href="#link2H_4_0001"> I. </a>
+          </p>
+          <p class="toc">
+            <a href="#link2H_4_0002"> II. </a>
+          </p>
+          <p class="toc">
+            <a href="#link2H_4_0003"> III. </a>
+          </p>
+          <p class="toc">
+            <a href="#link2H_4_0004"> IV. </a>
+          </p>
+        </td>
+      </tr>
+    </table>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="link2H_4_0001" id="link2H_4_0001">
+      <!--  H2 anchor --> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      I.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      One of the places which they point out on Ship Street is the Italian
+      fruit-shop on the corner of Perry Court, before the door of which, six
+      years ago, Guiseppe Cavagnaro, bursting suddenly forth in pursuit of
+      Martin Lavezzo, stabbed him in the back, upon the sidewalk. "All two" of
+      them were to blame, so the witnesses said; but Cavagnaro went to prison
+      for fifteen years. That was the same length of time, as it happened, that
+      the feud had lasted.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Nearly opposite is Sarah Ward's New Albion dance-hall. It opens directly
+      from the street There is an orchestra of three pieces, one of which plays
+      in tune. That calm and collected woman whom you may see rocking in the
+      window, or sitting behind the bar, sewing or knitting, is not a city
+      missionary, come to instruct the women about her; it is Sarah Ward, the
+      proprietress. She knows the Bible from end to end. She was a Sunday-school
+      teacher once; she had a class of girls; she spoke in prayer-meetings; she
+      had a framed Scripture motto in her chamber, and she took the Teachers'
+      Lesson Quarterly; she visited the sick; she prayed in secret for her
+      scholars' conversion. How she came to change her views of life nobody
+      knows,&mdash;that is to say, not everybody knows. And still she is honest.
+      It is her pride that sailors are not drugged and robbed in the New Albion.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      A few doors below, and on the same side of the street, is the dance-hall
+      that was Bose King's-. It is here that pleasure takes on its most sordid
+      aspect. If you wish to see how low a white woman can fall, how coarse and
+      offensive a negro man can be, you will come here. There is an inscription
+      on the bar, in conspicuous letters,&mdash;"Welcome Home."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      By day it is comparatively still in Ship Street. Women with soulless faces
+      loll stolidly in the open ground-floor windows. There are few customers in
+      the bar-rooms; here and there two or three idlers shake for drinks.
+      Policemen stroll listlessly about, and have little to do. But at nightfall
+      there is a change; the scrape of fiddles, the stamp of boot-heels, is
+      heard from the dance-halls. Oaths and boisterous laughter everywhere
+      strike the ear. Children, half-clad, run loose at eleven o'clock. Two
+      policemen at a corner interrogate a young man who is hot and excited and
+      has no hat. He admits that he saw three men run from the alley-way and saw
+      the sailor come staggering out after them, but he does not know who the
+      men were. The policemen "take him in," on suspicion.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It is here that the Day-Star Mission has planted itself. Its white flag
+      floats close by the spot where Martin Lavezzo fell, with the long knife
+      between his shoulder-blades. Its sign of welcome is in close rivalry with
+      the harsh strains from Sarah Ward's and the lighted stairway to Bose
+      King's saloon. It stands here, isolated and strange, an unbidden guest. It
+      is a protest, a reproof, a challenge, an uplifted finger.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But while, to a casual glance, the Day-Star Mission is all out of place,
+      it has, nevertheless, its following. On Monday and Thursday afternoons a
+      troop of black-eyed, jet-haired Portuguese women, half of whom are named
+      Mary Jesus, flock in to a sewing-school. On Tuesdays and Fridays American,
+      Scotch, and Irish women, from the tenement-houses of the quarter, fill the
+      settees, to learn the use of the needle, to enjoy a little peace, and to
+      hear reading and singing; and occasionally the general public of the
+      vicinity are invited to an entertainment.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It was a February afternoon; at the Mission building the board were in
+      monthly session. The meeting had been a spirited one. A proposition to
+      amend the third line of the fourth by-law, entitled "Decorum in the Hall,"
+      by inserting the word "smoking," had been debated and had prevailed. A
+      proposition to buy a new mangle for the laundry had been defeated, it
+      having been humorously suggested that the women could mangle each other.
+      Other matters of interest had been considered.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Finally, as the hour for adjournment drew near, a proposition was brought
+      forth, appropriate to the season. Saint Patrick's Day was approaching. It
+      was to many a day of temptation, particularly in the evening. Would it not
+      be a good plan to hold out the helping hand, in the form of a Saint
+      Patrick's Day festival, with an address, for example, upon Saint Patrick's
+      life, with Irish songs and Irish readings? Such an entertainment would
+      draw; it would keep a good many people out of the saloons. Such was the
+      suggestion.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The proposition excited no little interest. Ladies who had begun to put on
+      their wraps sat down again. To one of the board, a clergyman, who had
+      lately been lecturing on "Popery the People's Peril," the proposition was
+      startling. It looked toward the breaking down of all barriers; it gave
+      Romanism an outright recognition. Another member, a produce-man,
+      understood,&mdash;in fact he had read in his denominational weekly,&mdash;that
+      Saint Patrick could be demonstrated to have been a Protestant, and he
+      suggested that that fact might be "brought out." Others viewed the matter
+      in that humorous light in which this festival day commonly strikes the
+      American mind.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The motion prevailed. Even the anti-papistic clergyman was comforted,
+      apparently, at last, for he was heard to whisper jocosely to his left-hand
+      neighbor: "Saint Patrick's Day in the Morning!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      A committee, with the produce-man at the head, was appointed to select a
+      speaker, and to provide music and reading. It was suggested that perhaps
+      Mr. Wakeby and Mrs. Wilson-Smith would volunteer, if urged,&mdash;their
+      previous charities in this direction had made them famous in the
+      neighborhood. Mr. Wakeby to read from "Handy Andy;" Mrs. Wilson-Smith to
+      sing "Kathleen Mavourneen,"&mdash;there would not be standing-room!
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      So finally unanimity prevailed, and with unanimity, enthusiasm.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The committee met, and the details were settled. The chairman quietly
+      reserved to himself, by implication, the choice of a speaker. He knew that
+      it would be an audience hard to hold. The occasion demanded a man of
+      peculiar gifts. Such a man, he said to himself, he knew.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0002" id="link2H_4_0002">
+      <!--  H2 anchor --> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      II.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      The single meeting-house of L&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; stands on the main
+      street, with its tall spire and its two tiers of gray-blinded windows.
+      Beside it is the mossy burial-ground, where prim old ladies walk on Sunday
+      afternoons, with sprigs of sweet-william.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Across the street, and a little way down the road, is the square white
+      house with a hopper-roof, which an elderly, childless widow, departing
+      this life some forty years ago, thoughtfully left behind her for a
+      parsonage. It is a pleasant, home-like house, open to sun and air, and the
+      pleasantest of all its rooms is the minister's study. It is an upper front
+      chamber, with windows to the east and the south. There is nothing in the
+      room of any value; but whether the minister is within, or is away and is
+      represented only by his palm-leaf dressing-gown, somehow the spirit of
+      peace seems always to abide there.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      There is the ancient desk, which the minister's children, when they were
+      little, used to call the "omnibus," by reason of a certain vast and
+      capacious drawer, the resort of all homeless things,&mdash;nails, wafers,
+      the bed-key, curtain-fixtures, carpet-tacks, and dried rhubarb. Perhaps it
+      was to this drawer that the minister's daughter lately referred, when she
+      said that the true motto was, "One place for everything, and everything in
+      that one place."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Over the chimney-piece hangs a great missionary map, showing the stations
+      of the different societies, with a key at one side. This blue square in
+      Persia denotes a missionary post of the American Board of Commissioners;
+      that red cross in India is an outpost of a Presbyterian missionary
+      society; this green diamond in Arrapatam marks a station of the Free
+      Church Missionary Union. As one looks the map over, he seems to behold the
+      whole missionary force at work. He sees, in imagination, Mr. Elmer Small,
+      from Augusta, Maine, preaching predestination to a company of Karens, in a
+      house of reeds, and the Rev. Geo. T. Wood, from Massachusetts, teaching
+      Paley in Roberts College at Constantinople.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Thus the whole Christian world lies open before you.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Pinned up on one of the doors is the Pauline Chart. Have you never seen
+      the Pauline Chart? It was prepared in colored inks, by Mr. Parker, a
+      theological student with a turn for penmanship, and lithographed, and was
+      sold by him to eke out the avails of what are inaptly termed "supplies."
+      You would find it exceedingly convenient. It shows in a tabulated form,
+      for ready reference, the incidents of Saint Paul's career, arranged
+      chronologically. Thus you can find at a glance the visit to Berea, the
+      stoning at Lystra, or the tumult at Ephesus. Its usefulness is obvious.
+      Over the desk is a map of the Holy Land, with mountain elevations.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The walls of the room are for the most part hidden by books. The shelves
+      are simple affairs of stained maple, covered heavily with successive coats
+      of varnish, cracked, as is that of the desk, by age and heat. The contents
+      are varied. Of religious works there are the Septuagint, in two fat little
+      blue volumes, like Roman candles; Conant's Genesis; Hodge on Romans;
+      Hackett on Acts, which the minister's small children used to spell out as
+      "Jacket on Acts;" Knott on the Fallacies of the Antinomians; A Tour in
+      Syria; Dr. Grant and the Mountain Nestorians, and six Hebrew Lexicons,
+      singed by fire,&mdash;a paternal inheritance.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      There are a good many works, too, of general literature, but rather oddly
+      selected, as will happen where one makes up his library chiefly by writing
+      book-notices: Peter Bayne's Essays; Coleridge; the first volume of
+      Masson's Life of Milton; Vanity Fair; the Dutch Republic; the Plurality of
+      Worlds; and Mommsen's Rome. That very attractive book in red you need not
+      take down; it is only the history of Norwalk, Conn., with the residence of
+      J. T. Wales, Esq., for a frontispiece; the cover is all there is to it.
+      Finally, there are two shelves of Patent Office Reports, and Perry's
+      Expedition to Japan with a panoramic view of Yeddo. This shows that the
+      minister has numbered a congressman among his flock.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It is here that Dr. Parsons is diligently engaged, this cold March
+      afternoon, to the music of his crackling air-tight stove. He is deeply
+      absorbed in his task, and we may peep in and not disturb him. He has a
+      large number of books spread out before him; but looking them over, we
+      miss Lange's Commentaries, Bengel's Gnomon, Cobb on Galatians,&mdash;those
+      safe and sound authorities always provided with the correct view.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The books which lie before the Doctor seem all to, deal with a Romish
+      Saint, and, of all the saints in the world, Saint Patrick. In full sight
+      of his own steeple, from which the bell is even now counting out the
+      sixty-nine years of a good brother just passed away in hope of a
+      Protestant heaven,&mdash;tolling out the years for the village housewives,
+      who pause and count; under such hallowing influences,&mdash;beneath, as it
+      were, the very shadow of the Missionary Map and the Pauline Chart, and
+      with a gray Jordan rushing down through a scarlet Palestine directly
+      before him, suggestive of all good things; with Knott on the Fallacies at
+      his right hand, and with Dowling on Romanism on his left, the Doctor is
+      actually absorbed in Papistical literature. Here are the works of Dr.
+      Lanigan and Father Colgan and Monseigneur Moran. Here is the "Life and
+      Legends of Saint Patrick," illustrated, with a portrait in gilt of Brian
+      Boru on the cover. Here are the Tripartite Life, in Latin, and the saint's
+      Confession, and the Epistle to Co-roticus, the Ossianic Poems, and Miss
+      Cusack's magnificent quarto, which the Doctor has borrowed from the
+      friendly priest at the factory village four miles away, who borrowed it
+      from the library of the Bishop to lend to him.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Perhaps you have never undertaken to prepare a life of Saint Patrick. If
+      so, you have no idea of the difficulties of the task. In the first place,
+      you must settle the question whether Saint Patrick ever existed. And this
+      is a disputed point; for while there are those, like Father Colgan, whose
+      clear faith accepts Saint Patrick just as he stands in history and
+      tradition, yet, on the other hand, there are sceptics, like Ledwick, who
+      contend that the saint is nothing but a prehistoric myth, floating about
+      in the imagination of the Irish people.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Having settled to your satisfaction that Patrick really lived, you must
+      next proceed to fix the date of his birth; and here you enter upon
+      complicated calculations. You will probably decide to settle first, as a
+      starting-point, the date of the saint's escape from captivity; and to do
+      this you will have to reconcile the fact that after the captivity he paid
+      a friendly visit to his kinsman, Saint Martin of Tours, who died in 397,
+      with the fact that he was not captured until 400.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Next you will come to the matter of the saint's birthplace; and this is a
+      delicate question, for you will have to decide between the claims of
+      Ireland, of Scotland, and of France; and you will very probably find
+      yourself finally driven to the conclusion&mdash;for the evidence points
+      that way&mdash;that Saint Patrick was a Frenchman.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Next comes the question of the saint's length of days; and if you attempt
+      to include only the incidents of his life of which there can be no
+      possible doubt, you will stretch his age on until you will probably fix it
+      at one hundred and twenty years.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But when you have settled the existence, the date of birth, and the
+      nationality of Saint Pat-rick, you are still only upon the threshold of
+      your inquiries; for you next find before you for examination a vast
+      variety of miracles, accredited to him, which you must examine, weeding
+      out such as are puerile and are manifestly not well established, and
+      retaining such as are proved to your satisfaction. You will be struck at
+      once with the novel and interesting character of some of them. Prince
+      Caradoc was changed into a wolf. An Irish magician who opposed the saint
+      was swallowed by the earth as far as his ears, and then, on repentance,
+      was instantly cast forth and set free. An Irish pagan, dead and long
+      buried, talked freely with the saint from out his turf-covered grave, and
+      charitably explained where a certain cross belonged which had been set by
+      mistake over him. The saint was captured once, and was exchanged for a
+      kettle, which thenceforth froze water over the fire instead of boiling it,
+      until the saint was sent back and the kettle returned. Ruain, son of
+      Cucnamha, Amhalgaidh's charioteer, was blind. He went in haste to meet
+      Saint Patrick, to be healed. Mignag laughed at him. "My troth," said
+      Patrick, "it would be fit that you were the blind one." The blind man was
+      healed and the seeing one was made blind; Roi-Ruain is the name of the
+      place where this was done. Patrick's charioteer was looking for his horses
+      in the dark, and could not find them; Patrick lifted up his hand; his five
+      fingers illuminated the place like five torches, and the horses were
+      found.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      You see that one has a good deal to go through who undertakes to prepare a
+      life of Saint Patrick.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But our thoughts have wandered from Dr. Parsons. He has gathered the books
+      before him with great pains, from public and private libraries, and he
+      religiously meant to make an exhaustive study of them all; but sermons and
+      parish calls and funerals, and that little affair of Mrs. Samuel Nute,
+      have forced him, by a process of which we all know something, to forego
+      his projected subsoil ploughing and make such hasty preparation as he can.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He has read the Confession and the Epistle to Coroticus, and he has
+      glanced over the "Life and Legends," reading in a cursory way of the
+      leper's miraculous voyage; of the fantastic snow; of the tombstone that
+      sailed the seas; of the two trout that Patrick left to live forever in a
+      well,&mdash;
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     "The two inseparable trout,
+     Which would advance against perpetual streams,
+     Without obligation, without transgression&mdash;
+     Angels will be along with them in it."
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      And being very fond of pure water himself, the Doctor is touched by
+      Patrick's lament when far away from the well Uaran-gar:&mdash;
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     "Uaran-gar, Uaran-gar!
+     O well, which I have loved, which loved me!
+     Alas! my cry, O my dear God,
+     That my drink is not from the pure well of Uaran-gar!"
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      But finally he has settled down, as most casual students will, to the
+      sincere and charming little sketch by William Bullen Morris,&mdash;"Saint
+      Patrick, the Apostle of Ireland." He is reading it now by the east window,
+      holding the book at arm's-length, as is his wont.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The theme is new to him. There opens up a fresh and interesting field. The
+      dedication of the little book strikes his imagination: "To the Members of
+      the Confraternity of Saint Patrick, established at the London Oratory,
+      who, with the children of the saint in many lands, are the enduring
+      witnesses of the faith which seeth Him who is invisible."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He is interested in the motto on the title-page,&mdash;"<i>En un mot, on y
+      voit beaucoup le caractère de S. Paul</i>," and in the authorization,&mdash;"<i>Nihil
+      obstat</i>. E. S. Keagh, Cong. Orat." "<i>Imprimatur</i>, + Henricus
+      Eduardus, Card."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Doctor looks through the book in order. First, the introduction; and
+      here he considers the questions&mdash;First, was there in fact such a man
+      as Saint Patrick? Second, what was his nationality? Third, when was he
+      born: and, herein, does the date of his escape from captivity conflict
+      with the date of his visit to his kinsman, Saint Martin of Tours? Fourth,
+      to what age did he live? Fifth, where and by whom was he converted? Sixth,
+      are his miracles authentic? and so forth.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      After this introductory study the book takes up the saint's life in
+      connected order. Patrick was the son of a Roman decurio. From his earliest
+      days wonders attended him. When he was an infant, and was about to be
+      baptized, it happened that no water was to be had for the sacrament;
+      whereupon, at the sign of the cross, made by the priest with the infant's
+      hand upon the earth, a fountain gushed forth from the ground, and the
+      priest, who was blind, anointing his own eyes with the water, received his
+      sight.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      As Patrick grew older, wonders multiplied. He came as an apostle of the
+      faith to Strangford Lough. Dichu, the prince of that province, forewarned
+      by the Druids, raised his sword at Patrick; but instantly his hand was
+      fixed in the air, as if carved of stone; then light came to Dichu's soul,
+      and from a foe he became a loving disciple.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Then comes the story of the fast upon the mountain. It was on the height
+      ever since called Cruachan Patrick, which looks to the north upon Clew
+      Bay, and to the west on the waters of the Atlantic. It was Shrove
+      Saturday, a year and a little more from the apostle's first landing in
+      Ireland. Already he had carried the gospel from the eastern to the western
+      sea. But his spirit longed for the souls of the whole Irish nation. Upon
+      the mountain he knelt in prayer, and as he prayed, his faith and his
+      demands assumed gigantic proportions. An angel came down and addressed
+      him. God could not grant his requests, the message ran, they were too
+      great. "Is that his decision?" asked Patrick. "It is," said the angel. "It
+      may be his," said Patrick, "it is not mine; for my decision is not to
+      leave this cruachan until my demands are granted."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The angel departed. For forty days and forty nights Patrick fasted and
+      prayed amid sore temptations. The blessing must fall upon all his poor
+      people of Erin. As he prayed, he wept, and his cowl was drenched with his
+      tears.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At last the angel returned and proposed a compromise. The vast Atlantic
+      lay before them. Patrick might have as many souls as would cover its
+      expanse as far as his eyes could reach. But he was not satisfied with
+      that; his eyes, he said, could not reach very far over those heaving
+      waters; he must have, in addition, a multitude vast enough to cover the
+      land that lay between him and the sea. The angel yielded, and now bade him
+      leave the mountain. But Patrick would not. "I have been tormented," he
+      said, "and I must be gratified; and unless my prayers are granted I will
+      not leave this cruachan while I live; and after my death there shall be
+      here a care-taker for me."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The angel departed. Patrick went to his offering.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At evening the angel returned. "How am I answered?" asked Patrick. "Thus,"
+      said the angel: "all creatures, visible and invisible, including the
+      Twelve Apostles, have entreated for thee,&mdash;and they have obtained.
+      Strike thy bell and fall upon thy knees: for the blessing shall be on all
+      Erin, both living and dead." "A blessing on the bountiful King that hath
+      given," said Patrick; "now will I leave the cruachan."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It was on Holy Thursday that he came down from the mountain and returned
+      to his people.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0003" id="link2H_4_0003">
+      <!--  H2 anchor --> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      III.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      One afternoon at about this time you might have seen Mr. Cole, the
+      missionary of the Day-Star,&mdash;a small, lithe man, with a red beard,&mdash;making
+      his way up town. He walked rapidly, as he always did, for he was a busy
+      man.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He was an exceedingly busy man. During the past year, as was shown by his
+      printed report, he had made 2,014 calls, or five and one-half calls a day;
+      he had read the Scriptures in families 792 times; he had distributed
+      931,456 pages of religious literature; he had conversed on religious
+      topics with 3,918 persons, or ten and seven-tenths persons per day,
+      Sabbaths included. It was perhaps because he was so busy that there was
+      complaint sometimes that he mixed matters and took things upon his
+      shoulders which belonged to others.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Mr. Cole's rapid pace soon brought him to a broad and pleasant
+      cross-street; he went up the high steps of one of the houses, rang the
+      bell, and was admitted.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Rev. Mr. Martin was in his study, and the missionary was shown up.
+      Precisely what the conversation was has not been reported; but certain it
+      is that the next day after Mr. Cole's call, Mr. Martin began to prepare
+      himself for an address upon the life of Saint Patrick. It was an entirely
+      new topic to him; but he soon found himself in the full current of the
+      stream, considering&mdash;First, did such a man really exist, or is Saint
+      Patrick a mere myth, floating in the imagination of the Irish people?
+      Second, what was his nationality? Third, where was he born, and, herein,
+      how are we to reconcile his escape from captivity in 493, with his visit
+      to his kinsman, Saint Martin of Tours, after his escape from captivity, in
+      490? Fourth, to what age did he live? Fifth,&mdash;and so forth.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Mr. Martin had begun his labors by taking down his encyclopaedia and such
+      books of reference as he had thought could help him, and had succeeded so
+      far as to get an outline of the saint's life, and to find mention of
+      several works which treated of this topic. There were Montalembert's
+      "Monks of the West," and Dr. O'Donovan's "Annals of the Four Masters," the
+      works of Monseigneur Moran and Father Colgan, the Tripartite Life, and a
+      certain "magnificent quarto" by Miss Cusack. All these and many more he
+      had hoped to find in the different libraries of the city. But great had
+      been his surprise, on visiting the libraries, to find that the books he
+      wanted were invariably out. It was a little startling, at first, to come
+      upon this footprint in the sand; but a little reflection set the feeling
+      at rest. The subject was an odd one to him, to be sure, but there were
+      thousands of people in the city who might very naturally be concerned in
+      it, particularly at this time, when Saint Patrick's Day was approaching.
+      None the less the fact remained that the books he wanted&mdash;scattered
+      through two or three libraries&mdash;were always out.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      As he stepped out from the Free Library into the street, it occurred to
+      him to go to a Catholic bookstore near at hand to look for what he wanted.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It was a large, showy shop, with Virgins and crucifixes and altar
+      candelabra's in the windows, and pictures of bleeding hearts. He went in
+      and stood at the counter. A rosy-faced servant-girl, with a shy, pleased
+      expression, was making choice of a rosary. A young priest, a few steps
+      away, was looking at an image of Saint Joseph.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The salesman left the servant-girl to her hesitating choice, and turned to
+      Mr. Martin.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What have you," asked Mr. Martin, with a slightly conscious tone, "upon
+      the life of Saint Patrick?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The priest turned and looked; but the salesman, with an unmoved
+      countenance, went to the shelves and selected two volumes and laid them in
+      silence on the counter. One was the "Life and Legends of Saint Patrick"
+      with a picture in gilt of Brian Boru on the cover. The other was "Saint
+      Patrick, the Apostle of Ireland," by William Bullen Morris, Priest of the
+      Oratory. They were both green-covered.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Early in the evening Mr. Martin settled down by his study fire to his new
+      purchases. First he took up the "Life and Legends." He read the saint's
+      own Confession, and the Letter to Co-roticus, and looked through the
+      translation of the Tripartite Life, with its queer mixture of Latin and
+      English: "Prima feria venit Patricius ad Talleriam, where the regal
+      assembly was, to Cairpre, the son of Niall." "Interrogat autem Patricius
+      qua causa venit Conall, and Conall related the reason to Patrick."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He glanced over the miracles and wonders of which this book was full. But
+      before very long he laid it aside and took up the Life by William Bullen
+      Morris, Priest of the Oratory, and decided that he must depend upon that
+      for his preparation.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It was late at night. It was full time to stop reading; but it laid strong
+      hold of his imagination,&mdash;this strange, intense, and humorous figure,
+      looming up all new to him from the mists of the past. He read the book to
+      the end; he read how the good Saint Bridget foretold the apostle's death;
+      how two provinces contended for his remains, and how a light shone over
+      his burial-place after he was laid to rest.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It was very late when Mr. Martin finished the book and laid it down.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Thus it happens that the Rev. Dr. Parsons and the Rev. Mr. Martin are both
+      preparing themselves at the same time on the life of Saint Patrick, from
+      this one brief book by William Bullen Morris, Priest of the Oratory.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <a name="link2H_4_0004" id="link2H_4_0004">
+      <!--  H2 anchor --> </a>
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 4em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br />
+    </div>
+    <h2>
+      IV.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      Saint Patrick's Day has come and is now fast waning. The sun has sunk
+      behind the chimney-stack of the New Albion dance-hall; the street lamps
+      are lighted and are faintly contending against the dull glow of the late
+      afternoon.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      There is a lull between day and evening. All day there has been a stir in
+      the city. There has been a procession in green sashes, with harps on the
+      banners,&mdash;a long procession, in barouches, on horseback, and afoot.
+      There have been impassioned addresses before the Hibernian Society and the
+      Saint Peter's Young Men's Irish Catholic Benevolent Association. There has
+      been more or less celebration in Ship Street.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The evening advances. It is seven o'clock. Strains of invitation issue
+      from all the dance-halls. Already the people have begun to file in to the
+      Day-Star Mission. The audience-room is on the street floor. The missionary
+      stands at the open door, with anxious smiles, urging decorum. A knot of
+      idlers on each side of the doorway, on the sidewalk, comment freely on him
+      and on those who enter. Every moment or two a policeman forces them back.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At a quarter of seven a preliminary praise-meeting begins. Singing from
+      within jars against the fiddling from over the way. You hear at once "Come
+      to Jesus just now!" and "Old Dan Tucker."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Already the seats are filled,&mdash;eight in a settee; those who come now
+      will have to stand. Still, people continue to file in: laborers,
+      Portuguese sewing-women, two or three firemen in long-tailed coats and
+      silver buttons, from Hook and Ladder Six, in the next block; gross-looking
+      women, <i>habitués</i> of the Mission, with children; women who are <i>habitués</i>
+      of no mission; prosperous saloon-keepers; one of the councilmen of the
+      ward,&mdash;he is a saloon-keeper too.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Dr. Parsons's train brought him to town in good season. He passed in with
+      other invited guests at the private door, and he has been upon the
+      platform for ten minutes. His daughter is beside him; ten or a dozen of
+      his parishioners, who have come too, occupy seats directly in front.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The platform seats are nearly all taken; it is time to begin. The
+      street-door opens and a passage is made for a new-comer. It is Mr. Martin.
+      A contingent from his church come with him and fill the few chairs that
+      are still reserved about the desk.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Now all would appear to be ready; but there is still a few moments' pause.
+      The missionary is probably completing some preliminary arrangements. The
+      audience sit in stolid expectation.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Dr. Parsons, from beneath his eyebrows, is studying the faces before him.
+      In this short time his address has entirely changed form in his mind. It
+      was simple as he had planned it; it must be simpler yet But he has felt
+      the pulse of the people before him. He feels that he can hold them, that
+      he can stir them.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Meanwhile a whispered colloquy is going on, at the rear of the platform,
+      between the missionary and the chairman of the committee for the evening.
+      The missionary appears to be explanatory and apologetic, the chairman
+      flushed. In a moment a hand is placed on Dr. Parsons's shoulder. He
+      starts, half rises, and turns abruptly.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      There has been, it seems, an unfortunate misunderstanding. Through some
+      mistake Mr. Martin has been asked to make the address upon the life of
+      Saint Patrick, and has prepared himself with care. He is one of the
+      Mission's most influential friends; his church is among its chief
+      benefactors. It is an exceedingly painful affair; but will Dr. Parsons
+      give way to Mr. Martin?
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      So it is all over. The Doctor takes his seat and looks out again upon
+      those hard, dreary faces,&mdash;his no longer. He has not realized until
+      now how he has been looking forward to this evening. But the vision has
+      fled. No ripples of uncouth laughter, no ready tears. No reaching these
+      dull, violated hearts through the Saint whom they adore: that privilege is
+      another's.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But the chairman again draws near. Will Dr. Parsons make the opening
+      prayer?
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Doctor bows assent. He folds his arms and closes his eyes. You can see
+      that he is trying to concentrate his thoughts in preparation for prayer.
+      It is doubtless hard to divert them from the swift channel in which they
+      have been bounding along.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Now all is ready. The missionary touches a bell, the signal for silence.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Doctor rises. For a moment he stands looking over the rows on rows of
+      hardened faces,&mdash;looking on those whom he has so longed to reach. He
+      raises his hand; there is a dead silence, and he begins.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It was inevitable, at the outset, that he should refer to the occasion
+      which had brought us together. It was natural to recall that we were come
+      to celebrate the birth of an uncommon man. It was natural to suggest that
+      he was no creature of story or ancient legend, floating about in the
+      imagination of an ignorant people, but a real man like us, of flesh and
+      blood. It was natural to add that he was a man born centuries ago; that
+      the scene of his labors was the green island across the sea, where many of
+      us now present had first seen the light. It was natural to give thanks for
+      that godly life which had led three nations to claim the good man's
+      birthplace. It was natural to suggest that if about the sweet memories of
+      this man's life fancy had fondly woven countless legends, we might, with a
+      discerning eye, read in them all the saintly power of the man of God. What
+      though his infant hand may not have caused earthly waters to gush from the
+      ground and heal the blindness of the ministering priest, nevertheless doth
+      childhood ever call forth a well-spring of life, giving fresh sight to the
+      blind,&mdash;to teacher and taught.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But why go on? Who has not heard, again and again, the old-fashioned
+      prayer wherein all is laid forth, in outline, but with distinctness! We
+      give thanks for this. May this be impressed upon our hearts. May this lead
+      us solemnly to reflect.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The heart that is full must overflow,&mdash;if not in one way, then in
+      another.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Mr. Martin has not been told about Dr. Parsons. He sits and listens as the
+      Doctor goes on in the innocence of his heart, pouring forth with warmth
+      and fervor the life of the saint according to William Bullen Morris,
+      Priest of the Oratory,&mdash;pouring forth in unmistakable detail Mr.
+      Martin's projected discourse.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The prayer is ended; a hymn is sung, and then the missionary presents to
+      the audience the Rev. Mr. Martin, whom they are always delighted to hear;
+      he will now address them upon the life of Saint Patrick.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Mr. Martin rises. He takes a sip of water. He coughs slightly. He passes
+      his handkerchief across his lips. So far all is well. But the prayer is in
+      his mind. Moreover, he unfortunately catches his wife's eye, with a
+      suggestion of suppressed merriment in it.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      What does he say? What can he say? There are certain vague lessons from
+      the saint's virtues; some applications of what the Doctor has set forth;
+      that is all. Saint Patrick was sober; we should be sober. Saint Patrick
+      was kind; we should be kind.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Even his own parishioners admitted that he had not been "happy" on this
+      particular occasion.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But at the close of the meeting Dr. Parsons received a compliment. As he
+      descended from the platform, Mr. John Keenan, who kept the best-appointed
+      bar-room on the street, advanced to meet him. Mr. Keenan was in an
+      exceedingly happy frame of mind. He grasped the Doctor's hand. "I wish,
+      sir," he said, with a fine brogue, "to congratulate you upon your very
+      eloquent prayer. It remind me, sir,&mdash;and I take pleasure to say it,&mdash;it
+      remind me, sir, of the Honorable John Kelly's noble oration on Daniel
+      O'Connell."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Late that evening the Doctor stood at his study-window, looking out for a
+      moment before retiring to rest. There was no light in the room, and the
+      maps and the charts and the tall book-shelves were only outlines. There
+      was a glimmer from a farm-house two miles away, where they were watching
+      with the dead.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Doctor's daughter came in with a light in her hand to bid her father
+      good-night.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What did you think, Pauline," he said to her, "of Mr. Martin's talk?" It
+      had not been mentioned till now.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Pauline hardly knew what to think. She knew that it was not what the Rev.
+      Dr. Parsons would have given them! But, honestly, what did her father
+      think of it?
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Doctor mused for a moment; then he gave his judgment. "I think," he
+      said, "that it showed a certain lack of preparation."
+    </p>
+    <div style="height: 6em;">
+      <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Saint Patrick, by Heman White Chaplin
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+Title: Saint Patrick
+       1887
+
+Author: Heman White Chaplin
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+Release Date: October 12, 2007 [EBook #23002]
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SAINT PATRICK ***
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+Produced by David Widger
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+
+SAINT PATRICK
+
+By Heman White Chaplin
+
+1887
+
+
+
+
+I.
+
+One of the places which they point out on Ship Street is the Italian
+fruit-shop on the corner of Perry Court, before the door of which, six
+years ago, Guiseppe Cavagnaro, bursting suddenly forth in pursuit of
+Martin Lavezzo, stabbed him in the back, upon the sidewalk. "All two"
+of them were to blame, so the witnesses said; but Cavagnaro went to
+prison for fifteen years. That was the same length of time, as it
+happened, that the feud had lasted.
+
+Nearly opposite is Sarah Ward's New Albion dance-hall. It opens directly
+from the street There is an orchestra of three pieces, one of which
+plays in tune. That calm and collected woman whom you may see rocking in
+the window, or sitting behind the bar, sewing or knitting, is not a city
+missionary, come to instruct the women about her; it is Sarah Ward,
+the proprietress. She knows the Bible from end to end. She was a
+Sunday-school teacher once; she had a class of girls; she spoke in
+prayer-meetings; she had a framed Scripture motto in her chamber, and
+she took the Teachers' Lesson Quarterly; she visited the sick; she
+prayed in secret for her scholars' conversion. How she came to change
+her views of life nobody knows,--that is to say, not everybody knows.
+And still she is honest. It is her pride that sailors are not drugged
+and robbed in the New Albion.
+
+A few doors below, and on the same side of the street, is the dance-hall
+that was Bose King's-. It is here that pleasure takes on its most sordid
+aspect. If you wish to see how low a white woman can fall, how coarse
+and offensive a negro man can be, you will come here. There is an
+inscription on the bar, in conspicuous letters,--"Welcome Home."
+
+By day it is comparatively still in Ship Street. Women with soulless
+faces loll stolidly in the open ground-floor windows. There are few
+customers in the bar-rooms; here and there two or three idlers shake for
+drinks. Policemen stroll listlessly about, and have little to do. But
+at nightfall there is a change; the scrape of fiddles, the stamp of
+boot-heels, is heard from the dance-halls. Oaths and boisterous laughter
+everywhere strike the ear. Children, half-clad, run loose at eleven
+o'clock. Two policemen at a corner interrogate a young man who is hot
+and excited and has no hat. He admits that he saw three men run from the
+alley-way and saw the sailor come staggering out after them, but he does
+not know who the men were. The policemen "take him in," on suspicion.
+
+It is here that the Day-Star Mission has planted itself. Its white flag
+floats close by the spot where Martin Lavezzo fell, with the long knife
+between his shoulder-blades. Its sign of welcome is in close rivalry
+with the harsh strains from Sarah Ward's and the lighted stairway to
+Bose King's saloon. It stands here, isolated and strange, an unbidden
+guest. It is a protest, a reproof, a challenge, an uplifted finger.
+
+But while, to a casual glance, the Day-Star Mission is all out of place,
+it has, nevertheless, its following. On Monday and Thursday afternoons a
+troop of black-eyed, jet-haired Portuguese women, half of whom are
+named Mary Jesus, flock in to a sewing-school. On Tuesdays and Fridays
+American, Scotch, and Irish women, from the tenement-houses of the
+quarter, fill the settees, to learn the use of the needle, to enjoy
+a little peace, and to hear reading and singing; and occasionally the
+general public of the vicinity are invited to an entertainment.
+
+It was a February afternoon; at the Mission building the board were in
+monthly session. The meeting had been a spirited one. A proposition
+to amend the third line of the fourth by-law, entitled "Decorum in
+the Hall," by inserting the word "smoking," had been debated and had
+prevailed. A proposition to buy a new mangle for the laundry had been
+defeated, it having been humorously suggested that the women could
+mangle each other. Other matters of interest had been considered.
+
+Finally, as the hour for adjournment drew near, a proposition was
+brought forth, appropriate to the season. Saint Patrick's Day was
+approaching. It was to many a day of temptation, particularly in the
+evening. Would it not be a good plan to hold out the helping hand,
+in the form of a Saint Patrick's Day festival, with an address, for
+example, upon Saint Patrick's life, with Irish songs and Irish readings?
+Such an entertainment would draw; it would keep a good many people out
+of the saloons. Such was the suggestion.
+
+The proposition excited no little interest. Ladies who had begun to put
+on their wraps sat down again. To one of the board, a clergyman, who had
+lately been lecturing on "Popery the People's Peril," the proposition
+was startling. It looked toward the breaking down of all barriers; it
+gave Romanism an outright recognition. Another member, a produce-man,
+understood,--in fact he had read in his denominational weekly,--that
+Saint Patrick could be demonstrated to have been a Protestant, and
+he suggested that that fact might be "brought out." Others viewed
+the matter in that humorous light in which this festival day commonly
+strikes the American mind.
+
+The motion prevailed. Even the anti-papistic clergyman was comforted,
+apparently, at last, for he was heard to whisper jocosely to his
+left-hand neighbor: "Saint Patrick's Day in the Morning!"
+
+A committee, with the produce-man at the head, was appointed to select a
+speaker, and to provide music and reading. It was suggested that perhaps
+Mr. Wakeby and Mrs. Wilson-Smith would volunteer, if urged,--their
+previous charities in this direction had made them famous in the
+neighborhood. Mr. Wakeby to read from "Handy Andy;" Mrs. Wilson-Smith to
+sing "Kathleen Mavourneen,"--there would not be standing-room!
+
+So finally unanimity prevailed, and with unanimity, enthusiasm.
+
+The committee met, and the details were settled. The chairman quietly
+reserved to himself, by implication, the choice of a speaker. He knew
+that it would be an audience hard to hold. The occasion demanded a man
+of peculiar gifts. Such a man, he said to himself, he knew.
+
+
+
+
+II.
+
+The single meeting-house of L------ stands on the main street, with its
+tall spire and its two tiers of gray-blinded windows. Beside it is the
+mossy burial-ground, where prim old ladies walk on Sunday afternoons,
+with sprigs of sweet-william.
+
+Across the street, and a little way down the road, is the square white
+house with a hopper-roof, which an elderly, childless widow, departing
+this life some forty years ago, thoughtfully left behind her for a
+parsonage. It is a pleasant, home-like house, open to sun and air, and
+the pleasantest of all its rooms is the minister's study. It is an upper
+front chamber, with windows to the east and the south. There is nothing
+in the room of any value; but whether the minister is within, or is
+away and is represented only by his palm-leaf dressing-gown, somehow the
+spirit of peace seems always to abide there.
+
+There is the ancient desk, which the minister's children, when they
+were little, used to call the "omnibus," by reason of a certain vast and
+capacious drawer, the resort of all homeless things,--nails, wafers, the
+bed-key, curtain-fixtures, carpet-tacks, and dried rhubarb. Perhaps it
+was to this drawer that the minister's daughter lately referred,
+when she said that the true motto was, "One place for everything, and
+everything in that one place."
+
+Over the chimney-piece hangs a great missionary map, showing the
+stations of the different societies, with a key at one side. This blue
+square in Persia denotes a missionary post of the American Board of
+Commissioners; that red cross in India is an outpost of a Presbyterian
+missionary society; this green diamond in Arrapatam marks a station of
+the Free Church Missionary Union. As one looks the map over, he seems to
+behold the whole missionary force at work. He sees, in imagination, Mr.
+Elmer Small, from Augusta, Maine, preaching predestination to a
+company of Karens, in a house of reeds, and the Rev. Geo. T. Wood, from
+Massachusetts, teaching Paley in Roberts College at Constantinople.
+
+Thus the whole Christian world lies open before you.
+
+Pinned up on one of the doors is the Pauline Chart. Have you never seen
+the Pauline Chart? It was prepared in colored inks, by Mr. Parker, a
+theological student with a turn for penmanship, and lithographed,
+and was sold by him to eke out the avails of what are inaptly termed
+"supplies." You would find it exceedingly convenient. It shows in a
+tabulated form, for ready reference, the incidents of Saint Paul's
+career, arranged chronologically. Thus you can find at a glance the
+visit to Berea, the stoning at Lystra, or the tumult at Ephesus. Its
+usefulness is obvious. Over the desk is a map of the Holy Land, with
+mountain elevations.
+
+The walls of the room are for the most part hidden by books. The shelves
+are simple affairs of stained maple, covered heavily with successive
+coats of varnish, cracked, as is that of the desk, by age and heat. The
+contents are varied. Of religious works there are the Septuagint, in two
+fat little blue volumes, like Roman candles; Conant's Genesis; Hodge
+on Romans; Hackett on Acts, which the minister's small children used
+to spell out as "Jacket on Acts;" Knott on the Fallacies of the
+Antinomians; A Tour in Syria; Dr. Grant and the Mountain Nestorians, and
+six Hebrew Lexicons, singed by fire,--a paternal inheritance.
+
+There are a good many works, too, of general literature, but rather
+oddly selected, as will happen where one makes up his library chiefly by
+writing book-notices: Peter Bayne's Essays; Coleridge; the first
+volume of Masson's Life of Milton; Vanity Fair; the Dutch Republic; the
+Plurality of Worlds; and Mommsen's Rome. That very attractive book in
+red you need not take down; it is only the history of Norwalk, Conn.,
+with the residence of J. T. Wales, Esq., for a frontispiece; the cover
+is all there is to it. Finally, there are two shelves of Patent Office
+Reports, and Perry's Expedition to Japan with a panoramic view of Yeddo.
+This shows that the minister has numbered a congressman among his flock.
+
+It is here that Dr. Parsons is diligently engaged, this cold March
+afternoon, to the music of his crackling air-tight stove. He is deeply
+absorbed in his task, and we may peep in and not disturb him. He has a
+large number of books spread out before him; but looking them over, we
+miss Lange's Commentaries, Bengel's Gnomon, Cobb on Galatians,--those
+safe and sound authorities always provided with the correct view.
+
+The books which lie before the Doctor seem all to, deal with a Romish
+Saint, and, of all the saints in the world, Saint Patrick. In full sight
+of his own steeple, from which the bell is even now counting out
+the sixty-nine years of a good brother just passed away in hope of a
+Protestant heaven,--tolling out the years for the village housewives,
+who pause and count; under such hallowing influences,--beneath, as it
+were, the very shadow of the Missionary Map and the Pauline Chart, and
+with a gray Jordan rushing down through a scarlet Palestine directly
+before him, suggestive of all good things; with Knott on the Fallacies
+at his right hand, and with Dowling on Romanism on his left, the Doctor
+is actually absorbed in Papistical literature. Here are the works of Dr.
+Lanigan and Father Colgan and Monseigneur Moran. Here is the "Life and
+Legends of Saint Patrick," illustrated, with a portrait in gilt of
+Brian Boru on the cover. Here are the Tripartite Life, in Latin, and the
+saint's Confession, and the Epistle to Co-roticus, the Ossianic Poems,
+and Miss Cusack's magnificent quarto, which the Doctor has borrowed from
+the friendly priest at the factory village four miles away, who borrowed
+it from the library of the Bishop to lend to him.
+
+Perhaps you have never undertaken to prepare a life of Saint Patrick.
+If so, you have no idea of the difficulties of the task. In the first
+place, you must settle the question whether Saint Patrick ever existed.
+And this is a disputed point; for while there are those, like Father
+Colgan, whose clear faith accepts Saint Patrick just as he stands in
+history and tradition, yet, on the other hand, there are sceptics, like
+Ledwick, who contend that the saint is nothing but a prehistoric myth,
+floating about in the imagination of the Irish people.
+
+Having settled to your satisfaction that Patrick really lived, you
+must next proceed to fix the date of his birth; and here you enter upon
+complicated calculations. You will probably decide to settle first, as a
+starting-point, the date of the saint's escape from captivity; and to
+do this you will have to reconcile the fact that after the captivity he
+paid a friendly visit to his kinsman, Saint Martin of Tours, who died in
+397, with the fact that he was not captured until 400.
+
+Next you will come to the matter of the saint's birthplace; and this is
+a delicate question, for you will have to decide between the claims of
+Ireland, of Scotland, and of France; and you will very probably find
+yourself finally driven to the conclusion--for the evidence points that
+way--that Saint Patrick was a Frenchman.
+
+Next comes the question of the saint's length of days; and if you
+attempt to include only the incidents of his life of which there can be
+no possible doubt, you will stretch his age on until you will probably
+fix it at one hundred and twenty years.
+
+But when you have settled the existence, the date of birth, and the
+nationality of Saint Pat-rick, you are still only upon the threshold
+of your inquiries; for you next find before you for examination a vast
+variety of miracles, accredited to him, which you must examine, weeding
+out such as are puerile and are manifestly not well established, and
+retaining such as are proved to your satisfaction. You will be struck
+at once with the novel and interesting character of some of them. Prince
+Caradoc was changed into a wolf. An Irish magician who opposed the saint
+was swallowed by the earth as far as his ears, and then, on repentance,
+was instantly cast forth and set free. An Irish pagan, dead and long
+buried, talked freely with the saint from out his turf-covered grave,
+and charitably explained where a certain cross belonged which had been
+set by mistake over him. The saint was captured once, and was exchanged
+for a kettle, which thenceforth froze water over the fire instead of
+boiling it, until the saint was sent back and the kettle returned.
+Ruain, son of Cucnamha, Amhalgaidh's charioteer, was blind. He went in
+haste to meet Saint Patrick, to be healed. Mignag laughed at him. "My
+troth," said Patrick, "it would be fit that you were the blind one." The
+blind man was healed and the seeing one was made blind; Roi-Ruain is the
+name of the place where this was done. Patrick's charioteer was looking
+for his horses in the dark, and could not find them; Patrick lifted up
+his hand; his five fingers illuminated the place like five torches, and
+the horses were found.
+
+You see that one has a good deal to go through who undertakes to prepare
+a life of Saint Patrick.
+
+But our thoughts have wandered from Dr. Parsons. He has gathered the
+books before him with great pains, from public and private libraries,
+and he religiously meant to make an exhaustive study of them all; but
+sermons and parish calls and funerals, and that little affair of
+Mrs. Samuel Nute, have forced him, by a process of which we all know
+something, to forego his projected subsoil ploughing and make such hasty
+preparation as he can.
+
+He has read the Confession and the Epistle to Coroticus, and he has
+glanced over the "Life and Legends," reading in a cursory way of the
+leper's miraculous voyage; of the fantastic snow; of the tombstone that
+sailed the seas; of the two trout that Patrick left to live forever in a
+well,--
+
+     "The two inseparable trout,
+     Which would advance against perpetual streams,
+     Without obligation, without transgression--
+     Angels will be along with them in it."
+
+And being very fond of pure water himself, the Doctor is touched by
+Patrick's lament when far away from the well Uaran-gar:--
+
+     "Uaran-gar, Uaran-gar!
+     O well, which I have loved, which loved me!
+     Alas! my cry, O my dear God,
+     That my drink is not from the pure well of Uaran-gar!"
+
+But finally he has settled down, as most casual students will, to the
+sincere and charming little sketch by William Bullen Morris,--"Saint
+Patrick, the Apostle of Ireland." He is reading it now by the east
+window, holding the book at arm's-length, as is his wont.
+
+The theme is new to him. There opens up a fresh and interesting field.
+The dedication of the little book strikes his imagination: "To the
+Members of the Confraternity of Saint Patrick, established at the London
+Oratory, who, with the children of the saint in many lands, are the
+enduring witnesses of the faith which seeth Him who is invisible."
+
+He is interested in the motto on the title-page,--"_En un mot, on y voit
+beaucoup le caractere de S. Paul_," and in the authorization,--"_Nihil
+obstat_. E. S. Keagh, Cong. Orat." "_Imprimatur_, + Henricus Eduardus,
+Card."
+
+The Doctor looks through the book in order. First, the introduction; and
+here he considers the questions--First, was there in fact such a man
+as Saint Patrick? Second, what was his nationality? Third, when was he
+born: and, herein, does the date of his escape from captivity conflict
+with the date of his visit to his kinsman, Saint Martin of Tours?
+Fourth, to what age did he live? Fifth, where and by whom was he
+converted? Sixth, are his miracles authentic? and so forth.
+
+After this introductory study the book takes up the saint's life in
+connected order. Patrick was the son of a Roman decurio. From his
+earliest days wonders attended him. When he was an infant, and was
+about to be baptized, it happened that no water was to be had for the
+sacrament; whereupon, at the sign of the cross, made by the priest
+with the infant's hand upon the earth, a fountain gushed forth from the
+ground, and the priest, who was blind, anointing his own eyes with the
+water, received his sight.
+
+As Patrick grew older, wonders multiplied. He came as an apostle of the
+faith to Strangford Lough. Dichu, the prince of that province, forewarned
+by the Druids, raised his sword at Patrick; but instantly his hand was
+fixed in the air, as if carved of stone; then light came to Dichu's
+soul, and from a foe he became a loving disciple.
+
+Then comes the story of the fast upon the mountain. It was on the height
+ever since called Cruachan Patrick, which looks to the north upon
+Clew Bay, and to the west on the waters of the Atlantic. It was Shrove
+Saturday, a year and a little more from the apostle's first landing
+in Ireland. Already he had carried the gospel from the eastern to the
+western sea. But his spirit longed for the souls of the whole Irish
+nation. Upon the mountain he knelt in prayer, and as he prayed, his
+faith and his demands assumed gigantic proportions. An angel came down
+and addressed him. God could not grant his requests, the message ran,
+they were too great. "Is that his decision?" asked Patrick. "It is,"
+said the angel. "It may be his," said Patrick, "it is not mine; for my
+decision is not to leave this cruachan until my demands are granted."
+
+The angel departed. For forty days and forty nights Patrick fasted and
+prayed amid sore temptations. The blessing must fall upon all his poor
+people of Erin. As he prayed, he wept, and his cowl was drenched with
+his tears.
+
+At last the angel returned and proposed a compromise. The vast Atlantic
+lay before them. Patrick might have as many souls as would cover its
+expanse as far as his eyes could reach. But he was not satisfied with
+that; his eyes, he said, could not reach very far over those heaving
+waters; he must have, in addition, a multitude vast enough to cover the
+land that lay between him and the sea. The angel yielded, and now bade
+him leave the mountain. But Patrick would not. "I have been tormented,"
+he said, "and I must be gratified; and unless my prayers are granted
+I will not leave this cruachan while I live; and after my death there
+shall be here a care-taker for me."
+
+The angel departed. Patrick went to his offering.
+
+At evening the angel returned. "How am I answered?" asked Patrick.
+"Thus," said the angel: "all creatures, visible and invisible, including
+the Twelve Apostles, have entreated for thee,--and they have obtained.
+Strike thy bell and fall upon thy knees: for the blessing shall be on
+all Erin, both living and dead." "A blessing on the bountiful King that
+hath given," said Patrick; "now will I leave the cruachan."
+
+It was on Holy Thursday that he came down from the mountain and returned
+to his people.
+
+
+
+
+III.
+
+One afternoon at about this time you might have seen Mr. Cole,
+the missionary of the Day-Star,--a small, lithe man, with a red
+beard,--making his way up town. He walked rapidly, as he always did, for
+he was a busy man.
+
+He was an exceedingly busy man. During the past year, as was shown by
+his printed report, he had made 2,014 calls, or five and one-half
+calls a day; he had read the Scriptures in families 792 times; he had
+distributed 931,456 pages of religious literature; he had conversed on
+religious topics with 3,918 persons, or ten and seven-tenths persons per
+day, Sabbaths included. It was perhaps because he was so busy that there
+was complaint sometimes that he mixed matters and took things upon his
+shoulders which belonged to others.
+
+Mr. Cole's rapid pace soon brought him to a broad and pleasant
+cross-street; he went up the high steps of one of the houses, rang the
+bell, and was admitted.
+
+Rev. Mr. Martin was in his study, and the missionary was shown up.
+Precisely what the conversation was has not been reported; but certain
+it is that the next day after Mr. Cole's call, Mr. Martin began to
+prepare himself for an address upon the life of Saint Patrick. It was an
+entirely new topic to him; but he soon found himself in the full current
+of the stream, considering--First, did such a man really exist, or is
+Saint Patrick a mere myth, floating in the imagination of the Irish
+people? Second, what was his nationality? Third, where was he born, and,
+herein, how are we to reconcile his escape from captivity in 493, with
+his visit to his kinsman, Saint Martin of Tours, after his escape from
+captivity, in 490? Fourth, to what age did he live? Fifth,--and so
+forth.
+
+Mr. Martin had begun his labors by taking down his encyclopaedia and
+such books of reference as he had thought could help him, and had
+succeeded so far as to get an outline of the saint's life, and to
+find mention of several works which treated of this topic. There were
+Montalembert's "Monks of the West," and Dr. O'Donovan's "Annals of the
+Four Masters," the works of Monseigneur Moran and Father Colgan, the
+Tripartite Life, and a certain "magnificent quarto" by Miss Cusack. All
+these and many more he had hoped to find in the different libraries of
+the city. But great had been his surprise, on visiting the libraries,
+to find that the books he wanted were invariably out. It was a little
+startling, at first, to come upon this footprint in the sand; but a
+little reflection set the feeling at rest. The subject was an odd one
+to him, to be sure, but there were thousands of people in the city who
+might very naturally be concerned in it, particularly at this time, when
+Saint Patrick's Day was approaching. None the less the fact remained
+that the books he wanted--scattered through two or three libraries--were
+always out.
+
+As he stepped out from the Free Library into the street, it occurred
+to him to go to a Catholic bookstore near at hand to look for what he
+wanted.
+
+It was a large, showy shop, with Virgins and crucifixes and altar
+candelabra's in the windows, and pictures of bleeding hearts. He went in
+and stood at the counter. A rosy-faced servant-girl, with a shy, pleased
+expression, was making choice of a rosary. A young priest, a few steps
+away, was looking at an image of Saint Joseph.
+
+The salesman left the servant-girl to her hesitating choice, and turned
+to Mr. Martin.
+
+"What have you," asked Mr. Martin, with a slightly conscious tone, "upon
+the life of Saint Patrick?"
+
+The priest turned and looked; but the salesman, with an unmoved
+countenance, went to the shelves and selected two volumes and laid
+them in silence on the counter. One was the "Life and Legends of Saint
+Patrick" with a picture in gilt of Brian Boru on the cover. The other
+was "Saint Patrick, the Apostle of Ireland," by William Bullen Morris,
+Priest of the Oratory. They were both green-covered.
+
+Early in the evening Mr. Martin settled down by his study fire to his
+new purchases. First he took up the "Life and Legends." He read the
+saint's own Confession, and the Letter to Co-roticus, and looked through
+the translation of the Tripartite Life, with its queer mixture of Latin
+and English: "Prima feria venit Patricius ad Talleriam, where the regal
+assembly was, to Cairpre, the son of Niall." "Interrogat autem Patricius
+qua causa venit Conall, and Conall related the reason to Patrick."
+
+He glanced over the miracles and wonders of which this book was full.
+But before very long he laid it aside and took up the Life by William
+Bullen Morris, Priest of the Oratory, and decided that he must depend
+upon that for his preparation.
+
+It was late at night. It was full time to stop reading; but it laid
+strong hold of his imagination,--this strange, intense, and humorous
+figure, looming up all new to him from the mists of the past. He read
+the book to the end; he read how the good Saint Bridget foretold the
+apostle's death; how two provinces contended for his remains, and how a
+light shone over his burial-place after he was laid to rest.
+
+It was very late when Mr. Martin finished the book and laid it down.
+
+Thus it happens that the Rev. Dr. Parsons and the Rev. Mr. Martin are
+both preparing themselves at the same time on the life of Saint Patrick,
+from this one brief book by William Bullen Morris, Priest of the
+Oratory.
+
+
+
+
+IV.
+
+Saint Patrick's Day has come and is now fast waning. The sun has sunk
+behind the chimney-stack of the New Albion dance-hall; the street lamps
+are lighted and are faintly contending against the dull glow of the late
+afternoon.
+
+There is a lull between day and evening. All day there has been a stir
+in the city. There has been a procession in green sashes, with harps on
+the banners,--a long procession, in barouches, on horseback, and afoot.
+There have been impassioned addresses before the Hibernian Society and
+the Saint Peter's Young Men's Irish Catholic Benevolent Association.
+There has been more or less celebration in Ship Street.
+
+The evening advances. It is seven o'clock. Strains of invitation issue
+from all the dance-halls. Already the people have begun to file in to
+the Day-Star Mission. The audience-room is on the street floor. The
+missionary stands at the open door, with anxious smiles, urging decorum.
+A knot of idlers on each side of the doorway, on the sidewalk, comment
+freely on him and on those who enter. Every moment or two a policeman
+forces them back.
+
+At a quarter of seven a preliminary praise-meeting begins. Singing from
+within jars against the fiddling from over the way. You hear at once
+"Come to Jesus just now!" and "Old Dan Tucker."
+
+Already the seats are filled,--eight in a settee; those who come
+now will have to stand. Still, people continue to file in: laborers,
+Portuguese sewing-women, two or three firemen in long-tailed coats
+and silver buttons, from Hook and Ladder Six, in the next block;
+gross-looking women, _habitues_ of the Mission, with children; women
+who are _habitues_ of no mission; prosperous saloon-keepers; one of the
+councilmen of the ward,--he is a saloon-keeper too.
+
+Dr. Parsons's train brought him to town in good season. He passed in
+with other invited guests at the private door, and he has been upon the
+platform for ten minutes. His daughter is beside him; ten or a dozen of
+his parishioners, who have come too, occupy seats directly in front.
+
+The platform seats are nearly all taken; it is time to begin. The
+street-door opens and a passage is made for a new-comer. It is Mr.
+Martin. A contingent from his church come with him and fill the few
+chairs that are still reserved about the desk.
+
+Now all would appear to be ready; but there is still a few moments'
+pause. The missionary is probably completing some preliminary
+arrangements. The audience sit in stolid expectation.
+
+Dr. Parsons, from beneath his eyebrows, is studying the faces before
+him. In this short time his address has entirely changed form in his
+mind. It was simple as he had planned it; it must be simpler yet But he
+has felt the pulse of the people before him. He feels that he can hold
+them, that he can stir them.
+
+Meanwhile a whispered colloquy is going on, at the rear of the platform,
+between the missionary and the chairman of the committee for the
+evening. The missionary appears to be explanatory and apologetic,
+the chairman flushed. In a moment a hand is placed on Dr. Parsons's
+shoulder. He starts, half rises, and turns abruptly.
+
+There has been, it seems, an unfortunate misunderstanding. Through some
+mistake Mr. Martin has been asked to make the address upon the life
+of Saint Patrick, and has prepared himself with care. He is one of
+the Mission's most influential friends; his church is among its chief
+benefactors. It is an exceedingly painful affair; but will Dr. Parsons
+give way to Mr. Martin?
+
+So it is all over. The Doctor takes his seat and looks out again upon
+those hard, dreary faces,--his no longer. He has not realized until
+now how he has been looking forward to this evening. But the vision has
+fled. No ripples of uncouth laughter, no ready tears. No reaching these
+dull, violated hearts through the Saint whom they adore: that privilege
+is another's.
+
+But the chairman again draws near. Will Dr. Parsons make the opening
+prayer?
+
+The Doctor bows assent. He folds his arms and closes his eyes. You can
+see that he is trying to concentrate his thoughts in preparation for
+prayer. It is doubtless hard to divert them from the swift channel in
+which they have been bounding along.
+
+Now all is ready. The missionary touches a bell, the signal for silence.
+
+The Doctor rises. For a moment he stands looking over the rows on rows
+of hardened faces,--looking on those whom he has so longed to reach. He
+raises his hand; there is a dead silence, and he begins.
+
+It was inevitable, at the outset, that he should refer to the occasion
+which had brought us together. It was natural to recall that we were
+come to celebrate the birth of an uncommon man. It was natural to
+suggest that he was no creature of story or ancient legend, floating
+about in the imagination of an ignorant people, but a real man like
+us, of flesh and blood. It was natural to add that he was a man born
+centuries ago; that the scene of his labors was the green island across
+the sea, where many of us now present had first seen the light. It was
+natural to give thanks for that godly life which had led three nations
+to claim the good man's birthplace. It was natural to suggest that
+if about the sweet memories of this man's life fancy had fondly woven
+countless legends, we might, with a discerning eye, read in them all
+the saintly power of the man of God. What though his infant hand may
+not have caused earthly waters to gush from the ground and heal the
+blindness of the ministering priest, nevertheless doth childhood ever
+call forth a well-spring of life, giving fresh sight to the blind,--to
+teacher and taught.
+
+But why go on? Who has not heard, again and again, the old-fashioned
+prayer wherein all is laid forth, in outline, but with distinctness! We
+give thanks for this. May this be impressed upon our hearts. May this
+lead us solemnly to reflect.
+
+The heart that is full must overflow,--if not in one way, then in
+another.
+
+Mr. Martin has not been told about Dr. Parsons. He sits and listens as
+the Doctor goes on in the innocence of his heart, pouring forth with
+warmth and fervor the life of the saint according to William Bullen
+Morris, Priest of the Oratory,--pouring forth in unmistakable detail Mr.
+Martin's projected discourse.
+
+The prayer is ended; a hymn is sung, and then the missionary presents
+to the audience the Rev. Mr. Martin, whom they are always delighted to
+hear; he will now address them upon the life of Saint Patrick.
+
+Mr. Martin rises. He takes a sip of water. He coughs slightly. He passes
+his handkerchief across his lips. So far all is well. But the prayer is
+in his mind. Moreover, he unfortunately catches his wife's eye, with a
+suggestion of suppressed merriment in it.
+
+What does he say? What can he say? There are certain vague lessons from
+the saint's virtues; some applications of what the Doctor has set forth;
+that is all. Saint Patrick was sober; we should be sober. Saint Patrick
+was kind; we should be kind.
+
+Even his own parishioners admitted that he had not been "happy" on this
+particular occasion.
+
+But at the close of the meeting Dr. Parsons received a compliment. As
+he descended from the platform, Mr. John Keenan, who kept the
+best-appointed bar-room on the street, advanced to meet him. Mr. Keenan
+was in an exceedingly happy frame of mind. He grasped the Doctor's hand.
+"I wish, sir," he said, with a fine brogue, "to congratulate you upon
+your very eloquent prayer. It remind me, sir,--and I take pleasure to
+say it,--it remind me, sir, of the Honorable John Kelly's noble oration
+on Daniel O'Connell."
+
+Late that evening the Doctor stood at his study-window, looking out for
+a moment before retiring to rest. There was no light in the room, and
+the maps and the charts and the tall book-shelves were only outlines.
+There was a glimmer from a farm-house two miles away, where they were
+watching with the dead.
+
+The Doctor's daughter came in with a light in her hand to bid her father
+good-night.
+
+"What did you think, Pauline," he said to her, "of Mr. Martin's talk?"
+It had not been mentioned till now.
+
+Pauline hardly knew what to think. She knew that it was not what the
+Rev. Dr. Parsons would have given them! But, honestly, what did her
+father think of it?
+
+The Doctor mused for a moment; then he gave his judgment. "I think," he
+said, "that it showed a certain lack of preparation."
+
+
+
+
+
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