Lectures and sermons . Western Isles, and The Man of the Day. jj the proudest gem that the Atlantic bears upon the surface ofits green waters. Oh, if there were a few more like him !Oh, that our race would produce a few more like him! OurOConnell was Irish of the Irish and Catholic of the are Irish and we are Catholic. How is it we have notmore men like him ? Is the stamina wanting to us ? Is theintellect wanting to us ? Is the power of united expression inthe interests of society wanting to us? No ! But the religiousIrishman of our day refuses to be educated, and the educatedIrish
Lectures and sermons . Western Isles, and The Man of the Day. jj the proudest gem that the Atlantic bears upon the surface ofits green waters. Oh, if there were a few more like him !Oh, that our race would produce a few more like him! OurOConnell was Irish of the Irish and Catholic of the are Irish and we are Catholic. How is it we have notmore men like him ? Is the stamina wanting to us ? Is theintellect wanting to us ? Is the power of united expression inthe interests of society wanting to us? No ! But the religiousIrishman of our day refuses to be educated, and the educatedIrishman of to-day refuses to be religious. These two go handin hand. Unite the highest education with the deepest andtenderest practical love of God and of your religion, and I seebefore me, in many of the young faces on which I look, thestamp of our Irish genius ; I see before me many who may bethe fathers and legislators of the Republic, the leaders of ourrace, and the heroes of our common country and our THE CATHOLIC CHURCH THEMOTHER OF LIBERTY.
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