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AN GAODHAL
DR GALLAGHER'S SERMONS.
SERMON I.
Aar ṡuas-ṫogḃail ár m-Ban-Tiġearna
Beannuiġṫe, na Maiġdine Muire, Ma-
ṫar Dé.
Guiḋ orainn 'nná b-peacaċaiḃ anois
agus air uair ar m-báis. Amén.
Briaṫra an Spioraid Naoṁ le ḃeul
na h-eaglaise Catoiliciġe agus a gniḋ
ruinn de 'n Aḃe Maria.
Is an ġeárr urnaiġe seo do ġniḋ an
eaglais Ċatoiliceaċ, is iontuigse daoiḃ
cad ṡé meud an dóċuis a tá aicṡí ann
eidir-ġuiḋe na Maiġdine Muire.
Ċo fada a's ḃiḋeas an duine ann
gleann na n-deor air an t-saoġal biḋ
ean an ċolan 'g a meallaḋ; biḋ luiḋea¬
ċán laeṫ'aṁail ag lucifer a's aig sluaiġ-
tiḃ Ifrinn 'nn a ṫiṁcioll; beiḋ an uile
riaċtanas agus easḃa air; a d-taoḃ an¬
ama agus coirp. Teiḋeann sé ṫart mar
leon cíocraċ, feiṫeaḋ air neaċ a ṡlugaḋ.
Ní ṫig le duine air biṫ le n-a ṁisniġ féin
an claon agus an t-ain-ġean ḃiḋeas aig
an ġ-colain daonda do n t-saoġal a
ṁaiġistreaċt. Ní'l cúṁaċt air talaṁ
ḃeurfaḋ buaiḋe air ċaiṫiḋe an Diaḃail
gan grása Dé. Cad eile, a Ċríosdaiḋe,
cad ṡé mar ġeaḃam na grása so a tá
ċo riaċtanaċ so againn an leas ar n-an-
ama do ḋeunaḋ? Ní fiú sinn féin, ann
naċ ḃ-fuil niḋ air biṫ ó nádúir aċt olc
agus ain-ṁian, sinn a ḃiḋeas go laeṫ-
eaṁuil a briseaḋ aiṫeanta Dé agus a
ḋliġe; sinn a tá foluiġṫe ó ċeann go
cois le luḃra an ṗeacaiḋ, a dul aig iar-
raiḋ na n-grása so air an Te air a m-
biḋmuid cuir feirge go laeṫeaṁail!
Oċ! cad eile, cia air a n-iarfamuid é
mar sin? Cia an carad, no duine muin¬
tirḋa air a d-taḃarfamuid aġaiḋ ó rin¬
neamar náṁhaid dá 'r g-carad ionṁuin,
Críost? A tá, a ċáirde, air an Maiġ¬
dean Ṁuire. Is air a láiṁ tá an dioġ-
altas noċ do ṫuill ar b-peacaiḋ iontuġ-
aḋ uainn. Is ṫríd láṁa Ṁuire ṫig gaċ
caḃair agus congnaḋ ó Ḋia ċugainn. Is
sí an sruṫán ṡí as a d-tig uisge ṫobar
na n-grása mar ṫuile ċugainn. Is dá a
ḋruim so orduiġeas an, eaglais duinn
an urnaiġe súd a ráḋ go minic.
FACTS OF HISTORY.
Donatus, Bishop of Fesiola in Italy, 1,100
years ago, thus writes of Ireland :
“— exhaustless in her store
Of veiny silver and of golden ore ;
Her fruitful soil for ever teems with wealth ;
With gems her waters, and her air with health;
Her verdant fields with milk and honey flow ;
Her woolly fleeces vie with virgin snow ;
Her waving furrows wave with bearded corn,
And arms and arts her envied sons adorn.
No savage bear, with lawless fury, roves ;
Nor fiercer lion through her peaceful groves ;
No poison there infects ; no scaly snakes
Creep through the grass, nor frogs among the
lakes.
William III first imported frogs into Ireland.
THE LAND LEAGUE. — The total failure of the
Land League's pic-nic at Ridgewood Park,
Brooklyn (there were not a hundred persons
present), indicates the people's estimate of the
political management which went so near up-
setting the League's meeting in the Academy
of Music in February last. Will this
be a warning to the petty politicians of Brook-
lyn not to drag the sacred cause of Ireland
into the mire of American politics?
IT had heen announced in our last issue
that THE GAEL would be doubled in size for
the future. After mature consideration, and
at the suggestions of sincere friends to the
Irish Language movement, we have come to
the conclusion that it would be more benefi-
cial to the Gaelic cause to reduce the price to
one-half, and to let the paper stand as it is.
The price has now been brought so low — five
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Send sixty cents to this office in postage
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THE GAEL tenders its grateful acknowledg¬
nents of Messrs. Tindall, of Detroit ; P. M.
Walsh, of Scranton ; McCosker, of Mobile ;
Duggan, of Charleston ; McGuire, of New
York, and O'Brien, of Philadelphia, for their
patriotic and successful exertions in promoting
its welfare. As for Messrs. T. O'N. Russell
and Joseph Cromien, they are so well known
for their unremitting labors in the Irish Lan-
guage cause, that their very substantial support
of THE GAEL is not surprising.
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