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Excerpt from My Life in Connaught: With Sketches of Mission Work in the West
Ireland. I have never read a more interesting narrative than the story of 'my Life in Connaught.' Only a few months before the famine of 1846-1847 Mr. Armstrong left his home in Ulster to labour in what was then the 'far West.' The scenes of hunger, disease, and death which he witnessed are told in thrilling language by one who passed through them, and his vivid descriptions help us to realize the misery of that awful time.
Mr. Armstrong also tells of the opposition of the clergy of the then Established Church to our ministers in the discharge of their most solemn duties. It seems almost incredible nowadays that at a period well within the memory of many still living the Protestant Episcopal ministers denied to Presbyterians in Co. Mayo - and often nearer home - permission to lay their dead in their last resting-place accompanied by the simple service of the Presbyterian worship. The specimens of clerical discipline on the part of another section of the community are also highly instructive.
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