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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/23002-8.txt b/23002-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..71484e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/23002-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1041 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Saint Patrick, by Heman White Chaplin + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Saint Patrick + 1887 + +Author: Heman White Chaplin + +Release Date: October 12, 2007 [EBook #23002] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** 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. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Saint Patrick + 1887 + +Author: Heman White Chaplin + +Release Date: October 12, 2007 [EBook #23002] +Last Updated: December 17, 2012 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SAINT PATRICK *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</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,—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,—"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,—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. + </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,—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! + </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——— 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,—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,—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,—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,—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. + </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—for the evidence points + that way—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,— + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + "The two inseparable trout, + Which would advance against perpetual streams, + Without obligation, without transgression— + 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:— + </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,—"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,—"<i>En un mot, on y + voit beaucoup le caractère de S. Paul</i>," and in the authorization,—"<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—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,—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,—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. + </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—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. + </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—scattered + through two or three libraries—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,—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,—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,—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,—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,—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,—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,—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,—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,—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,—and I take pleasure to say it,—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 /> + </div> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Saint Patrick, by Heman White Chaplin + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SAINT PATRICK *** + +***** This file should be named 23002-h.htm or 23002-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/0/0/23002/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Saint Patrick + 1887 + +Author: Heman White Chaplin + +Release Date: October 12, 2007 [EBook #23002] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** 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 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. 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