. Lectures and sermons . a will have grown into such giganticproportions that every other nation will be dwarfed in compari-son. In that day, if the Irish in America are true to the Cath-olic faith; if they are united in the golden bond of that faith,and in the practice of that faith ; and if they are sober andtemperate men, in twenty years time this race of the Irish willbe equal in glory and sanctity to the stock from which it hasbeen transplanted ; just as the seedling in the heart of the roseis borne upon the breeze ; and, while the original remains, fromthe new seed will come forth anothe
. Lectures and sermons . a will have grown into such giganticproportions that every other nation will be dwarfed in compari-son. In that day, if the Irish in America are true to the Cath-olic faith; if they are united in the golden bond of that faith,and in the practice of that faith ; and if they are sober andtemperate men, in twenty years time this race of the Irish willbe equal in glory and sanctity to the stock from which it hasbeen transplanted ; just as the seedling in the heart of the roseis borne upon the breeze ; and, while the original remains, fromthe new seed will come forth another rose, as fair again. So I The Evils of Ireland and their Remedy. 183 this Celtic race, transported by the storm of persecution fromthe Green Island, like the acorn springing up again intothe vigorous oak upon the American soil, will be the mostpowerful race on the face of Gods earth. The blessings ofearth will be upon it, and the blessing of that God whose faithit has ever cherished, will come down upon it from IRELANDS FAITH, THE TRIUMPH OF THE AGE.
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