urn, overturn, overturn it, and it
shall be no more until He comes whose right it is, and I will give it
Him." So was this throne overturned, and was never after established in
Jerusalem. You will notice that there are three overturnings, and as
Scriptural language is emphatic and not superfluous or tautological,
these overturnings mean something. Turn to history, and you will find
this throne has been turned over just three times--first, from Jerusalem
to Ireland; second, through King Fergus to Scotland, and, third, through
King James, from Scotland to England. This throne can never be turned
over again, for Jerusalem will be incorporated into the British Empire.
The throne has turned over till it got home again; hence, as surely as we
live, Palestine will go into the hands of England. The throne, religion,
and education established by the prophet have ever kept together. This
is the secret of Ireland's prestige and marvellous pre-eminence in
centuries past. The college of Armach could boast of 7,000 students at a
time. Missionaries went forth from Ireland through all Europe, teaching
Christianity, and founding schools. Few men can compare to Virgilus,
Eregina, Columbanus, and Columba. In olden times she was known as the
"Isle of the Saints." The day of Ireland's weakness and distress came to
her when she permitted her religion to be corrupted and controlled by
foreigners; and by these same Italian intriguers she is now impoverished
and enslaved. But for this the throne might have remained with her
to-day, and England and Scotland have been under her. But when a nation
loses her religion, she loses the right arm of power, and the ability to
preserve freedom.

Jeremiah was the patron-saint for Ireland for a long time. Simeon (the
Welsh) had and have David; and as surely as the Welsh have kept their
saint, so surely ought Ireland. St. Patrick is looked upon by many as a
mythical person. I believe, however, that he was a veritable man. The
best authorities make out that he was born at Bonavena, in ancient Gaul,
near what is now called Boulogne, some time about 387 A.D. He is
reported as having died March 17th, 465, in the county Down. His
father's name was Calpurnius. Young Calpurnius, or St. Patrick, as he
was afterwards called, had a hard life of it in youth. I believe him to
have been a Benjamite, a Christian; for the Benjamites began to fill in
that part of France about that period. This Tribe wer