The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-02


some days ago in Baltimore, Cardinal
Gibbons closed the admirable and elo-
quent eulogy Of Pope Leo, Thirteenth
eSsllfs name
HIS HOLINESS.
Pope Leo XIII. is the living ex-
empliflcation of the grand morastic
maxim: Laiborare est orare.
At eighty-four-the Holy Father is
well on into his eighty-fifth year-he is
an unwearying, active, prayerful, con-
slant worker
His life is one long round of work
ana prayer; broken. in Difference to his
physician, by short pauses for the re-
taxation Of his mind and the refresh
ment of his body, without which his
burning zeal for the advancement of
the Christian faith and for the spread
of Christian influence would wear out
even his enduring frame.
For seventeen years the Holy Faith
er has been guiding christendom: sew
enteen years of steady effort. of mar
vellous patience. of dignified resistance.
OF edrylng progress, and of spiritual
conquest
The Holy Father found the church
suffering, wounded, and manned.
The mundane influence and glory of
the papacy had been lessened. The
moral influence Of Rome seemed shak-
en-.
I'm the seventeen memorable years
OF his pontif1cate, however, Leo XII
has regained all that has been lost,
and won new glories for the church.
He converses with his guests either
in Italian, French or Latin, in all of
which idioms he is alike at home. His
Latin has been compared, end not un-
favorably, with that of the great
classics. His French, which is ex-
tremely pure, is spoken with a slight
accent.
HIS ELOQUENT VOICE.
tHis voice." as the cardinal remem-
$sZarad it, was deep. clear. well mod
ulated and penetrating. Though not
exceptionally strong, it suggested
vitality and health
Altogether, it was an interesting
voice and sui generis. Long after the
echoes of his words had died away the
memory of them fingered in the heart.
He would occasionally interrupt the
discussion of the matters before him to
put some searching and pertinent ques-
ton, invariably showing how deeply he
was interested in his subject and how
closely he had thought upon the relig-
sous and social problems Of the far
away New World he loves so we'll
PONTIFFS IN CONTRAST.
Very marked is the contrast be-
tween the rounded debonnaire. pat
Alal form of Plus TX. and TIE slighter,
III sngularly impressive, figure of his
~tcessor TO the vice-regency of
n Christ on earth.
Small though his stature is, too, the
Holy Father has a curious and extra
ordinary majesty as he is borne through
the halls of his palace in the Won
1roIlC M crcs. Mt If 1an Oh, "a
sits upon his throne CLOSING and open
ing the mouths Of the newly created
cardinals.
His valet. it is said. has more than
once been startled. on entering mis- room
in the morning, to find him still on his
knees a his deVotions.
"Orare, laborare.
''If the Pope had only penned his
marvellous encyclicals he would have
earned his right to claim a place among
the Very foremost writers and thinkers
of his time.
''In his lighter moods the holy father
IS not averse to penning Latin odes
and italian sonnets. His poems which
would fill a moderate sized volume,
are equally felicitous whether-like the
autobiogra phical verses, 'Ad Josephum
Fratrem,' which were published last
year-they are written in Latin or as
occasionally happens. they are COM
posed in his own native tongue.
zone point in the holy fathers char
acter has been too much obscured by
political passion and prejudice.
HE is an ardent and patriotic Ital-
ian, eager for the glory of his country,
and yearning for the renewal of the
links of loyalty which till lately bound
1t closely to the Holy See.
AHEAD OF HIS AGE.
'tIn nothing has the wisdom and
the foresight Of the holy father been
More plain of late years than in his in
creasing disregard of the more ephem-
eral phases of politics. and his increas-
ssweiehty social, moral and educational
problems with which the twentieth
century may be forced to grapple.
I'm the United States this interest
has found practical expression in the
approval and encouragement afforded
TO the Catholic university at Washing
ton: in his bread and charitable atti-
tude towards the struggling wage
Garner; and in the extraordinary and
personal part which he has taken in
a f41nsuai oiis''i'H q America"
%The Washington university was
sSstituted and grew to its present i'm
Eortance under his immediate patron
Tage 1t has been constantly In his
it may be favored with fresh proofs of
his solicitude.
HE LOVES ART AND SCIENCE.
THE pope loves music-more espec-
Tally the music of Palestrina. But he
believes that there should be some
bounds set to music in the ritual of the
church And he diScourages the use
of sensuous music.
"The pressing cares which weigh
upon his holiness have not allowed
him much leisure for the culture of
some other arts. But he is an enlight-
ened patron of architecture, he keeps
pace with the higher literature of his
cay and is deeply interested in the
achievements of the modern scientists.
AT 81 the holy father still enjoys
IN d health His intellectual force
clearness are intact. His activity
4 zeal seem undated.
A GREAT POPE.
&&oLeo XIII. will have a place in his
Rry with the great popes.
He is a great statesman, pure
moralist. an admirable stylist, a. keen
observer. a deep thinker.
But it is as a Christian model,
father of the church, and an upholder
of the faith that he will be most low
ingly remembered.
I" He needs no foil, but shines by his
own proper light
IN THE SURF ON THE BEACH.
TFrom the New York World.l