Texr:—"As the Father hath sent Me, I also send you: goma therefore, teach ye all nations, baptising them in the mame of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost."
T. Patrick is the national saint and patron of Ireland.
His name is inseparably woven into the history of the Irish race, and the Seventeenth of March has become almost a world holiday—at any rate, in the English-speaking world. Yet it is not primarily as a national figure that we should celebrate his memory—as the man to whom from our childhood we have looked back ever as the greatest Irishman.
He has a greater claim upon our love and veneration—as the apostle whom God sent to build His Church in what was then the uttermost parts of the world. own hand, have come down to us—the Confession, a sort of autobiography which he wrote in his old age, and an epistle which dates some years earlier.
I could not do better than make up my sermon from these two works of his own, particularly from the Confession. You will be listening then not to me but to St. Patrick Himself—words which he spoke to his children fifteen hundred years ago.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.