Christ in every eye who sees me, Christ in every ear who hears me. I bind myself to-day to a strong virtue, an invocation of (the) Trinity, I believe in a Threeness with confession of an Oneness in (the) Creator of (the) Universe Domini est salus, Domini est salus, Christi est salus, Salus tua Domine, sit semper nobiscum. The oldest book in Ireland is now believed to be the _Domhnach Airgid_, a copy of the four Gospels in Latin presented, according to the “Tripartite Life,” by St. Patrick to St. Aedh Maccarthenn of Clogher. For protection it has a triple shrine of yew, silver-plated copper, and gold-plated silver. Shrine and MS. are to-day among the most prized treasures of the Royal Irish Academy. It is highly probable, says Professor G. T. Stokes and Dr. Wright, that it was the veritable copy used by St. Patrick himself. The Book of Hymns has also three other very interesting compositions, which profess to date back to his time. First there is Sechnall’s Hymn in praise of St. Patrick, supposed to have been written during his lifetime, and generally regarded as genuine. St. Sechnall, or Secundius as he is sometimes called, was the nephew and disciple of Patrick, and associated with him in the See of Armagh, either as contemporaneous bishop or as his successor. It was he who annoyed the saint by his sordid remark about preaching on the necessity of giving. To condone for the pain he gave his uncle, the penitent Sechnall composed this poem of twenty-two stanzas in his praise, thus constituting himself, if written before the “Deer’s Cry,” the first known poet of Christian Ireland. In view of its alleged acceptance by St. Patrick, the hymn has been held in great veneration, and sung as one of his honours on the days of his Festival.