The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-08

charitable heart? Impossible. And it
is right, my brethren, that it should be
so. Religion recognizes all this. Re-
ligion brings your friend before the al
tar of God, and there he is surrounded
with lighted tapers to indicate the
faith he protested. She blesses that
body, she incenses that corpse. to show
her affection and her love for her child.
Religion Sympathizes with SorroWing
friends, although it is the will of God
that we should all go. Religion unites
with nature in sympathizing with the
friends of the deceased. Religion wishes
in loving tones to speak the praises OF
the dead. Hence it is that / am here
as a representative of religion to per-
form that sorroWful task, and in do
ing so, religion and nature both COM
bine in me, because the deceased was
my friend. He was friend of all
that knew him, and to know him was
to love him. He had a heart as ten
der and as soft as child, brave as a
lion when circumstances required it.,
and as big as the Wasatch mount
aims beneath whose shadows his re-
mains are to rest. He was a faithful
servant, who won the confidence and
esteem of his employers. The longer
they knew him the greater was their
affection and their esteem for him. He
was like the faithful servant of the
gospel, VINO was commended by his
master, We'll done. good and faithful
servant. Because thou hast been faith
full over few things, l will place thee
over many" The mutual and friendly
relation that existed between him and
his old master for seventeen long years
is told not in words but in actions.
We read this morning in the newspa-
pers that his old master, when he heard
of his death. cried ike a child: and
the esteem of that master for his faith
full servant is told in a few words,
when he said. Nobody can never re-
place Dennis Sullivan
He was a true Irishman. He loved
his country, and to his manly charac-
ter and good qualities his countrymen
can look as true type of an Irish
man. And he was devoted to his adop-
ted country. There was no flag that
was dearer to his heart than the stars
and stripes. If occasion required it, he
was willing and ready to give his
hearts blood in defense of his country.
He was a man of deep religious senti-
ments, true piety and simple love.
During his lifetime he served God, did
his duty to Him as best he knew how,
and why should we not now hope that
he is reaping his eternal reward in
heaven? His religion was without os-
Lord wants us all to do. He was truly
charitable. He was not in any sense
intolerant. His best friends were non
Catholics. There is a catholicity Of
heart my brethren, which goes out, no
matter what the differences of creed
may be; people will live together in
sweet charity without ever sacrificing
one iota of their belief. Such was the
charity Of the Savior, who commended
i
pie of the good Samaritan, though not
yet Christian. Let US pluck from the
life of our friend all those qualities
that we recognized in him during life.
Hide away faults, if any you find, be-
cause there is no perfection here be-
low Look only upon him as one that
was loyal to his family and to his
friends. loyal to his employer, loyal
to his country, and above all. loyal to
God. And in conclusion, all 1 can say
is, when l look beyond the grave,
Farewell, o. faithful friend