The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-01-13

sermon, It was delivered oxlomporaR.
eouHly while he stool with clasped
hands at the head OF the casket,
Tho words Of Bishop Keane, in q
clear, rich and sonorous tone, distinctly
reached every portion OF the chamber
His tribute to the deceased was ain elo-
Quent one, and when the bishop
touched on the many loving character,
istiGs OF the late senator the eyes OF
many on tho floor and in the galleries
were wet with sincere tears,
WILL LEAVE AT MIDNIGHT,
During the delivery Of the sermon
the immense crowd was unusually
quiet and seemed 10 be drinking in
every word uttered,
When Bishop keane completed his
sermon the ac9lytss and the clergy frat
left the chamber. They were followed
by the family Of the deceased, and then
by the committee Of the two houses and
the legislature Of West Virginia. The
others assembled on the floor left the
chamber in the inverse order in which
they came,
The remains were taken 10 the house
again, where they will be removed TO a
special train which leaves ut midnight
over the Chesapeake & Ohio road,
AN ELOQUENT TRIBUTE,
In the course Of his remarks Bis hop
Keane said;
"At the request OF his eninencc,
Cardinal Gibbons, aud as his repre-
sentative on this solemn occasion, it Ia
my privilege to offer to Senator Kenna
the churchs tribute OF respect
and affection, Ills country has
given and will yet give fitting
expression to her appreciation OF tho
tirelcss energy, the distinguished
ability and the blameless integrity with
which lie filed for so many years the
high office to which his fellow citizens
had called him, Let itbe permitted to
his mother church to mingle her ac-
cents with those Of his country TO tell
OF those qualities that made him near
and dear TO her, yea, the qualities In
which lay the real secret oil all his pub
lie work. A life is noble in proportion
as II has before 1t
A NOBLE IDEAL
and strives manfully to live up TO it.
But nowhere in all the universe OF hui
man thought and aspiration cGn there
be found such an ideal rs that which
faith from his earliest years held before
him. In his early childhood faith taught
him to say to his own busy mind and
to answer to all who asked
him the reason OF his being, "God made
me that might know him, love him
and serve him in this world, and be
happy with him forever in the next"
Then be asked, But tell me what this
means in practice? what it implies in
my daily lileP
To this his young heart responded
willingly, because he knew that the
sweetest OF all things is love and the
noblest Of all loves is
THE LOVE OF GOD.
"Iere was the lofty ideal, which from
his earliest days John Edward Kenna
saw held before him by his faith, and
such was the ideal by which up to his
latest breath Senator Kenna we'll knew
that he had to measure and TO judge all
the work OF his life. Thanks be to God,
whose providence gave this good man
from his earliest boyhood no other
standard by which to shape his life,
and unto his last day permitted him to
Judge himself by no different criterion.
Were / to assert that he had
never in any moment OF his
life relaxed in HE striving after
the great and pure ideal or sweryed
from the line OF perfect fidelity in lis
realization, he would be the first to re-
flute the exageration, and l can fancy
that those silent lips, once 80 prompt
and strong for honesty and truth, would
say: No, / was human; even whilethe
spirit was willing, the flesh was weak.
Many and many time did / strike my
breast and say, "0h, Lord, be merciful
to mo, a sinner"
Bishop Keane spoke at some length
and closed as follows: Because OF hls
faith, because OF the glorious uplifting
Of truth taught him, because Of tho
potent spiritual aid It gave him, John
Edward Kenna was q wiser. man, q
stronger man, a safer man, a more 70.
liable and dutiful and useful man in
every department OF life. His career
was all the more IN honor TO MS coun-
try and blessing to humanity because
Of the divine element that was in 1t.
The links OF deep and strong and
sincere affection which bound him 10
the family and friends were all the
sweeter and all the tenderer because Of
that spirit in the heart OF Christ which
he venerated, which he loved and in
which his soul yearned to participate.
And now may eternal love prepare and
perfect what in his life has been faulty
andimperiect; may the Father of Mercy
and the God OF all consolation, who
comfoteth us in all tribulations, pour
into the hearts of his beloved ones the
balm OF his healing and soothing grace"
Tho Athletic Club.
The Americus Athletic club held Its
regular meeting Monday evening, and
after tho election of officers tho club
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