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MISS ELEANOK H. HULL^ ON THE 



He also says in reference to this, that " St. Augustine" — not is, but, 

 very cautiously — " mai/ have been the apostle of Kent ; St. Aidan was 

 the apostle of England." 



I have often thought that St. Augustine's mission was what 

 might be called a failure. This was not his fault at all. I do not 

 want to depreciate the efforts made by him ; but I think the 

 circumstances of the time conspired to make it a failure. We have 

 heard about the Eastern Counties. The mission went in that 

 direction ; and then in consequence of the King, who was Christian 

 at the time when Augustine went on his tour, djnng, his successor 

 became a heathen, and back went the people to heathenism. That 

 was no fault of St. Augustine's and his missionaries, but the fact 

 remains we are indebted not to the Italian mission but to the Celtic 

 Church for the Christianity which we have. 



One thing in which I differ slightly from Miss Hull about St. 

 Patrick. I gather from Bishop Brown, in his treatise on the Early 

 Churches, that St. Patrick was not a Eoman citizen; that there 

 were two, Palladius and Patricius, who went to Ireland, and the first 

 one was rejected by the Irish (probably, because he was ignorant 

 of the language), and it was the second one who was our St. Patrick. 

 He really was the father in the mission of introducing Christianity 

 and strengthening the Church in that land. 



Professor Lobley. — I have been deeply interested in the paper 

 by Miss Hull, and especially so as I resided for a consideral)le time 

 in the parish in which was one of those great crosses of Christianity, 

 and that was a cross that Miss Hull mentioned, but she did not 

 specify the locality of it. She mentioned it as Bangor. It was the 

 Bangor Iscoed, on the river Dee, about twelve miles from the city of 

 Chester. There were three thousand students gathered together 

 and al)out seven hundred teachers or monks, and the Saxons from 

 Northumbeiland came and entirely destroyed that settlement and 

 massacred all the monks, and entirely razed the place to the ground, 

 so that at the present time not a vestige remains. That is 

 Bangor-on-Dee, twelve miles from the city of Chester.* 



Mr. Rouse. — I imagined Bangor to be the other Bangor, and the 

 capital of Caernarvon. 



* See Miss Hull's remarks. 



