The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-23

awaiting him on the records of that
tribunal before which all men must ap-
pear. May the God of Mercy deal kind
ly with him. and grant eternal rest to
his poor immortal soul.
Though gifted with talents which
might have placed him in the front
ranks of his fellows in the secular
world, he listened to the voice of God
calling him to a higher life where he
could instruct others into justice, have
compassion on the erring ones in this
world and offer gifts and sacrifices for
sin.
The priesthood of Christ is the high
est and holiest office that God can con-
fer upon man and the aspirant to that
sublime dignity should bring to his
calling not only zeal for Gods honor
and glory and the salvation of souls,
but also human learning, that he may
be able to give reasons for the faith
that is in him, instruct the ignorant,
and lead wavering humanity from this
valley of sin to the mountain of holi-
ness.
Father Mangan was man not only
richly endowed with natural abilities,
but he was n serious student, a deep
reasoner, gifted with a tenacious men,
ory, in which he had stored away a
rich fund of facts. He was not only
learned In his calling, but he was thor
oughly conversant with the current
events and knew well the history of the
living men of the day.
Each might choose some particular
trait of his character, but to my mind
the one which predomnated was self
sacrifice; always yielding up his own
interests for the good of others. lie
adhered tenaciously to what he be-
leved to be right, but very retiring IN
his disposition and never imposed his
opinions in others and exceedingly care
full never to offend. But, my brethren,
although Il high priest of superior at
tainments and selected by God to offer
gifts and sacrifices for sins, he himself
was encompassed with iirmness, and II
we loved him in life let us love him also
in DEATH and let that love manifest
itself in an appeal to God ia his beha!r.
Remains taken to Cuba.
At 12.4j the funeral procession moved
to the Delaware, LackaWanna ana
Western depot and 1t was one OF the
longest corteges ever seen in TINS city.
over 5000 persons viewed the remains
and gazed upon the peaceful features OF
the priest and half as many more
who could not gain admitance attended
the remains to the depot.
The pall-bearers were: John Colli-
gan, j. j. Maghran, j. E. Roche, Il. E.
Leonard. II. +. Leornard, NJ. j. Kelly,
George +. McCarty, J. }. Brown, Peter
Kelly and John j. O'Boyle.
In addition to the pall-bearers and
the family, those who accompanied the
remains were: Fathers Cyprian and
James, o. $. F., both OF St. Bonaven-
ture college, Allegheny, n. Y; O'Reilly,
Jordan, Walsh Moffitt, Driscoll, ID. a.
Dunno, Gerrity, O'Donnell. Nealon, Hus-
sic Comerford. McCabe, Quinnan
| O'Malley and SANDAL; Patrick Rush
and Thomas Rooney, of Branch 80
Catholic Mutual Benefit association
Hon. James C. Vaughan, William Nc
Donough. John +. Regan, Miles Clark
Patrick b. Calpin, and John Sheridan
of St. Peters Young Mems Total Absti'
nence society; William Dawson and
Dennis Roche, of the |. c. b. u, OF
Pine Brook: 2. f. Howley and NJ. L
Handley, of John Boyle O'Reilly coun'
ell, Young Mems Institute; p. j. Boland
| Peter i. Cusick and A. j. Duffy, repre-
senting the students of ST., Thomas col
| lege; b. d. O'Reilly, j. l.. Ruddy and
James +. Ruddy.