The Legends of Saint Patrick
The Legends of Saint Patrick
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so much of spiritual insight belongs. Admiration and wonder were
among its chief habits; and it would not have been repelled by
Mysteries in what professed to belong to the Infinite. Lawless as
it was, it abounded also in loyalty, generosity, and self-sacrifice;
it was not, therefore, untouched by the records of martyrs, examples
of self-sacrifice, or the doctrine of a great Sacrifice. It loved
children and the poor; and Christianity made the former the
exemplars of faith, and the latter the eminent inheritors of the
Kingdom. On the other hand, all the vices of the race ranged
themselves against the new religion.
In the main the institutions and traditions of Ireland were favourable to Christianity. She had preserved in a large measure the patriarchal system of the East. Her clans were families, and her chiefs were patriarchs who led their households to battle, and seized or recovered the spoil. To such a people the Christian Church announced herself as a great family--the family of man. Her gen
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