The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-06-13
Maqnlficent Grafton on 0'Connell.

AVSIAA~AN-A-~
the remains of the immortal o'Connell to their
last resting place in Glasnevin Cemetery. The
apectators are estimated 1T fifty thousand.
Amonpst those present were the Cardinal
Archbishop of Dublin, and many of the other
Irish bishops and over three hundred clergy,
the Lord Chancellor and most of the other
Judges The ceremony was very imposing
Reading this splendid panegyric on the mem
DRY of Ireland's greatest son cannot fail to ex-
cite feelings of the most intense interest, and
concentrates thought and give rise to the live
iest emotions regarding him whose whole
being was given to his religion and his conn
try. The orator on this interesting occasion
was the Very Rev. Father Burke, who thus adj
dressed the immense assembly:
- 1wisdom conducted the just man through
the right way and showed him the Kingdom of
God, made him honorable in his labors, md ac-
cozlplislSed his works. She kept him safe from
that he might overcome And in bondage she
left him not till she brought him the sceptre of
the Kingdom and power against those that OPP
pressed him, and gave him everlasting glory"
These striking words Of the inspired writer
tell us the glasious history of Joseph, n great
sss shsF aad a fo fHs Source Of
his greatness, and the secret of his success
BE was inst man and the spirit of wisdom
through the right ways-that Is to cay, the
ways of truth and Justice, the straightforward
paths of reason and obedience; and the end of
his wayssthe Object over before his eyes, was
the kingdom of God" the Independence, the
glory, the spiritual freedom of the children of
his race. Ahigh and holy object was this, a
out to him; as the end for which man labors
determines all things either unto shame or
unto glory, so he who labored for so grand an
end "a the kingdom of God, y was made :" hon
orsble in his labors," and the source of this
honor was also the secret of success, for he
" accomplished his works. Bat in the midst
OF these honorable laborav the inspired wri-
ter tells us that the just mans path was beset
by enemies, but the spirit of wisdom which
guided him "kept him safe from his enemies"
enabled him to meet their violence and their
wiles, their open hatred and their subtle cum
ming, to overcome them and to battle them
The contest was long; it was "a strong con-
hiotp which was given to him only that he
crowned. He Enado to taste of sorrow
his enemies seemed TO prevail but the spirit
of wisdom, truth and justice forsook him
the kingdom" the love and veneration of his
breshren and of his people and power against
those that oppressed him, the power of prin-
ciple and of Justice" and SO changed his sor-
row into joy, and gave him everlasting
gioryn-glory on the earth, in the history and
traditions of his people, where his name was
shrined in their love, and the higher glory, the
everlasting glory of the kingdom of God,h for
which he had labored SO honorably, SO success-
umph, and everlasting glory came to the great
lsraelite through the spirit of wisdom, that
same spirit of which it is written elsewhere, |
sss 4 s Sa9 ab ao al things that it
lions conveyeth itssff into holy souls, and
naketh she friends of God and the Prophets,-- /
selsnas g Sod tlss Z g, e 81, say
sS zsiAB 81 siae 1eAders of HE people.
fhS destinies of nations are in the hands of
aus d 1aaffon fs to regain the FIRST of it's rights,
the Zee exercise of its faith and religion, God,
who Is never wanting to His own designs, even
provides for that hour leader for his people,
mi hAad. seeking the kingdom of God, honara-
BILE in his labors, strong in conflict with his
enemies E, triumphant in the issue, and crowned
designs of God. Centuries of patient endur-
ance brought at length the dawn vf better i
day, Gods hour came; and it brougbt'with it /
Ireland's greatest SON., Daniel O'Connell. We
his grave to-day, to pay him n last !
tribute of love, to speak words of praise, of /
suffrage, aud of prayer. For two and twenty |
years has he silently slept in the midst of us.
His generation is passing away, aud the light
of history already dawns upon his grave, and
She speaks his name with cold, uninlpassieHea
voice. In tits age of onrs o few years are as O
century of times gone by. Great changes and
startling events follow each other in such
quick succession that the greatest names are
forgotten almost as soon as those who bore
them ppear. aud the world itself is anr=
prise f,tnr
which promised 10 be Immortal; He who is
even IN the golden BOOK Of the
world Is annals finds that le has but written his
name IitSon water The Church nlolo is the
true shrine Of inltiqrtality, the temple of fame
which perisheth not; and that man pnly whose
nauae and memo rs are preserved in her sanctn-
ariea receives on this earth reliectiul of that
glosS which is eternal in. Heay ven l1nt before
the hnrch Will erqwn any one Of her children
she carefully examines his claims to the i'm
mortality of her gratitude aud praise, she asks
what has he done for God and for man, This
great question ana I come here to answer TO-
day for him whose tongue, once SO eloquent, is |
now sfilled in the, silence of the grave, and |
over whose tomb o grateful country has raised |
a monument Of ito aneient faith and . record
of its past glories, and I claim for him the
need OF orr graf itude and love, in that be was |
q man Of faith, whom wisdom guided in |" the
right ways,1 who loved and sought " the king |
dom of God whowas most honorable in his
1abofs,s and who accomplished his great
workss-the liberator- of his race, the father of
his people, the conquerof In "the indebted
confictS of principle, truth and justice. No
man of our day denies that Ireland has been a
most afflicted country; but seldom was her
dark hour darker, or her affection greater than
towards the close of the last century. The |