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AN GAODHAL
DR GALLAGHER'S SERMONS.
SERMON I.
Aar shuas-thogbhail ár m-Ban-Tighearna
Beannuighthe, na Maighdine Muire, Ma-
thar Dé.
Guidh orainn 'nná b-peacachaibh anois
agus air uair ar m-báis. Amén.
Briathra an Spioraid Naomh le bheul
na h-eaglaise Catoilicighe agus a gnidh
ruinn de 'n Abhe Maria.
Is an gheárr urnaighe seo do ghnidh an
eaglais Chatoiliceach, is iontuigse daoibh
cad shé meud an dóchuis a tá aicshí ann
eidir-ghuidhe na Maighdine Muire.
Cho fada a's bhidheas an duine ann
gleann na n-deor air an t-saoghal bidh
ean an cholan 'g a mealladh; bidh luidhea¬
chán laeth'amhail ag lucifer a's aig sluaigh-
tibh Ifrinn 'nn a thimhcioll; beidh an uile
riachtanas agus easbha air; a d-taobh an¬
ama agus coirp. Teidheann sé thart mar
leon cíocrach, feitheadh air neach a shlugadh.
Ní thig le duine air bith le n-a mhisnigh féin
an claon agus an t-ain-ghean bhidheas aig
an gh-colain daonda do n t-saoghal a
mhaighistreacht. Ní'l cúmhacht air talamh
bheurfadh buaidhe air chaithidhe an Diabhail
gan grása Dé. Cad eile, a Chríosdaidhe,
cad shé mar gheabham na grása so a tá
cho riachtanach so againn an leas ar n-an-
ama do dheunadh? Ní fiú sinn féin, ann
nach bh-fuil nidh air bith ó nádúir acht olc
agus ain-mhian, sinn a bhidheas go laeth-
eamhuil a briseadh aitheanta Dé agus a
dhlighe; sinn a tá foluighthe ó cheann go
cois le lubhra an pheacaidh, a dul aig iar-
raidh na n-grása so air an Te air a m-
bidhmuid cuir feirge go laetheamhail!
Och! cad eile, cia air a n-iarfamuid é
mar sin? Cia an carad, no duine muin¬
tirdha air a d-tabharfamuid aghaidh ó rin¬
neamar námhhaid dá 'r g-carad ionmhuin,
Críost? A tá, a cháirde, air an Maigh¬
dean Mhuire. Is air a láimh tá an diogh-
altas noch do thuill ar b-peacaidh iontugh-
adh uainn. Is thríd lámha Mhuire thig gach
cabhair agus congnadh ó Dhia chugainn. Is
sí an sruthán shí as a d-tig uisge thobar
na n-grása mar thuile chugainn. Is dá a
dhruim so orduigheas an, eaglais duinn
an urnaighe súd a rádh 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
cents a month or sixty cents a year — that the
cost will be no barrier in the way of getting it.
Send sixty cents to this office in postage
stamps or otherwise, and THE GAEL will be
mailed to you monthly for a year.
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.
Send 60 cents to this office and you
will get AN GAODHAL monthly for a
year; preserve and bind it, and you will
have an Irish library; have your friends
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