The Irish standard., 1892-09-24

on which 50 much depended for him and
his cause. When word was brought that
he would have what was popularity called
q walk-over, as his opponent had just
suddenly died, no light OF triumph APP
peared Oh his face. He was too great for
a voluntary feeling, might say for even
an involuntary feeling OF this kind. He
appeared rather downcast, aud simply
said: "What shadows we are, and what
shadows we pursue"
Mr.. Dougherty's short addresses
achieved IN a few moments all that be de-
sired. Familiar to you all are the occa-
sions when he nominated for the presi-
dency two of the purest public mon Of
our age and the triumphs he achieved
on these occasions Perhaps one of the
greatest triumphs of his eloquence was
his speech in the Cathedral of this city,
at public meeting to protest against
the spoiiage of the Holy See by the Carl
baldians At that time our friend was
exceedingly unpopular amongst the
Democrats because of his change in poll
tics, and his being invited to speak was
very unpopular action on the part Of the
last archbishop. But my predecessor
was too broad a man to be influenced by
such motives because he knew the change
was not unprincipled. It was said that
numbers came to the meeting to hiss
down the speaker. He had not spoke
five minutes when the tide turned. He
continued. Cheer after cheer pealed
through the temple and around it's beau
tiful dome. Men forgot themselves. He
held the vast audience in the hollow of
his hand Here WAS the triumph. of elo-
quenca. The entire speech lasted not
over fifteen minutes. have heard cri-
tics say that there was not so much in
the speech when read in cold print. But
cold print is corpse. The living soul
Of eloquence must be there to vivify it.
I heard Mr.. Dougherty lament in his
lecture on oratory that the press was
gradually taking it's place, and 1t was no
longer great power. His words sounded
like the lamentation of the last of the
orators over dying eloquence. But in
this opinion I cannot agree. Whatever
God has made great power of in every
age, and which is founded in CUR rational
nature, will outlive vicissitudes. I know
that ii eloquence should fly from the bar,
and the Senate and the popular Assem-
bly,, like frightened dove she will take
refuge in the sanctuary, and would al
ways feel at nome there. She is part of
our ministry, FOR faith eometh by hear
ing, and hearing by the Word of God.
How can they believe unless they hear,
and how can they hear without a
preacher. But, also, eloquence will live
outside the Church in every department.
in which it has lived in the past.
But, it may be said, it will be the elo-
quence Of logical speaking, not that of
mere sentiment.
Mere sentimentl Is not the heart
portion OF our being as well as the head?
The trinity of the soul is composed of in
tellect, memory and will. You must pay
tribute to all, and it is greatly by the
heart that the will is moved. 1t would
be great injustice to Mr.. Dougherty to,
suppose that he was man OF sentiment
alone. He had a clear, logical head
which made him an admirable lawyer
and reasoner, as one Of the eldest and
most discriminating Judges at Our Bar
assures me, but because there was 70
one his peer in appeals to the passions,
he was chiefly kept within this sphere.
But, remarkable as he was in the quail
tiles of which I have spoken, there was
still another and greater one, TO be al
luded to especially here. Man is reli-
glous being. The religious element ia
HIM is as real as the love element or the
intellectual element, aud like these, it
may be neglected and almost die out.
The greatest philosophers and orators
that ever lived were religious men, and
that man is imperfect who ignores it.
Mr.. Doughe1ty YVES man OF faith and
simple piety. That faith shone out in
his words and deeds, and he Was ever
found the zealous defender OF the
Church he revered and loved. There can
be little doubt that in the past this fact
stood in his way Of progress because OF
religious prejudices. He was not intol.
Grant. Many of his dearest friends were
not Catholics. There is a Catholicity of
heart and soul that brings people into
sweet union and, without yielding an
iota of their convictions, they feel as one.
Such was the Catholicity Of Jesus Christ
himself when he proposed to the ortho-
dox Jews and to the whole orthodox
world for all ages the charitable example
of an heretical Good Samaritan. Our
friend was religious not only in faith,
but in practical reception of the sacra-
ments, and has left to all an example of
how man of the world, joyous, social,