The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-11

GRIEF AT ST. PAUL'S
Funeral Ceremonies Over
the Remains of Rev.
Father John ].
T1ghe-
FATHER HOGAES GRACEFUL EULOGY
Church Crowded with Citizens Of
ALI Shades and Sects-NobIe
Life Revealed.
FATHER HoGAH'S GRACEFUL EULOGY


ing. in the church on Greenyille avenue,
a solemn high mass for the repose or
his soul was celebrated, and there was
a remarkable gathering present. People
of high and low degree, ministers OF
other denominations, city officials were
there to pay their last sad respects to
the memory of brilliant and broad
minded priest whom to know was to love
and admire.
The body had been lying in state in the
church all night, attended by guard OF
honor, consisting of these gentlemen:-J-
F. Woodmeneey, NJ. I. Pagan. T. Cogan,
P. Mcdonald, ]. Fitzgerald, ]. Burke f.
Connell, p Rock, George Schroll c. J.
Jungermann, p Mullins and j. Hauser
Lauer.
Long before the time arrived for chant
ing the office for the Dead crowds began
to stream into the building Captain 7.
Nugent had officers at the doors TO di-
rect the people, who came in large num-
bers. Priests from this city and out of
town were arriving every minute. and
when the mass was begun, at ten o'clock,
the church was packed to the doors. The
aisies were crowded and hundreds were
standing even in the porch and outside
on the steps.
Bishop w NJ Wigger arrived on time,
and with him about one hundred and
thirty priests. Every church in Jersey
City sent representative. So great was
the number of the clergy present that it
was with difficulty that Acting Rector
Father ]. T. Brown and the Rev. Father
Reilly could find room for them. Near
the .casket the family OF the dead rector
MAS seated, and In reserved seats were
Mayor E. Hoos, ex-Mayor P. f. Wanser,
President Andrew J. corcoran of the
Board of Trade, the Rev. G. F. Hull of
Linden Avenue M. e. Church, Prose-
cutor of the Pleas G. H. Winfield, ex-
Judge Thos. F. Noonan, B. L. Stowe, ex-
Director of the Board of Education
Michael NJ. Holmes. County President Of
the A. o. H.; DIR. Joseph Finn, Director
of the Board of Education; Assistant
United States District Attorney o. Brfen,
ex-Assemblyman j., P Mullin, ex-Sherin
c. j. Cronan. President Charles Merker,
OF the Minkakwa Republican Club, ]. ].
McIlhinney and other well known citi-
zens. The pall-bearers occupied front
seats. They were:-James F. Weodmen-
cey, Henry Lembeck, F. Roehrenbeck, c..
]. Jungermann, ]. Hauser, M. /. Pagan,
NJ. Doran. P. Rock, J. T. Parks, P. Nc
Donald, D. McCarron, 7. Foy, Thomas
Cogan P. Mullins, ]. Fitzgerald and ].
Burke. Behind them were the Sisters in
charge of the parochial school.
The Rev. Father Boylan, of St. Lucy's
Church, was the celebrant of the mass;
the Rev. Father Callan was deacon and
the Rev. Father Dunn, sub-deacon. The
Rev. Father Hogan, a close friend of the
dead priest preached the eulogy. His
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the Tribe of Levi and his discourse was
mainly devoted to the special relation of
the priesthood with the people.
"I am free to say" he began. "that in
my thirty-two years of priesthood I
never had a more difficult duty to per-
form than that 1 am now about to un-
dertake, and hope won't break down.
I had acquaintance with Father Tighe for
twenty-five years, and our friendship
strengthened as years rolled on, until this
time when his soul has passed into the
vestibule OF eternity. He didn't want any
eulogy Burning to the Bishop and did
not like fulsome praise. but before his
death he said to me:- Father, suppose
there will be some talking over my dead
body, and want you TO do it.. / said
to him I was afraid should break
down, but If he asked me I would try
to do it. Father Tighe replied, I ask
you
ITO perform that last office is sad
pleasure, and ] regret that I have not
the eloquence or the descriptive powers
of Father Tighe to describe these fea-
lures, which were so eminently his, of
his ministerial life.
Father Hogan spoke at length about
the priesthood, its antiquity and univer-
salty among all people in the worlds $
history. Priests. he said, were the am
"a of ChriSt and through them
the Saviour performed His work. For
them, being SO invested, it was to dissi-
sorrows and save his soul. 1t was their
duty to crush sin and destroy it. AS
Christ Himself had dual nature, SC has
His agent, the priest, and mystery Of
mysteries the dead priest before them
was an example People, he continued,
while regarding the priest as the repre-
did not lessen their infirmities. The
priests. defects should not be regarded
nor criticized, for they were only hui
II knew your PASTOR continued Father
Hogan and ne ao;ng Was ada faithfgi ' priest
initiating his Divine Master. I met him
at Harrison many years ago and the ex-
impressed me. He was only twenty-one
when he was elected President of the
St. Vincent de Paul Society, over the
been amused to watch him when dis
putes arose. Father Tighe. with his head
down, would hear every word, and then
tenderly he was beloved by us all for the
simplicity of his character! I said to
him. DO you ever think of being a
priest?' and he replied that he thought
he never could be learned enough. He
came to me three months later and told
me he was ready to study and he as
tonished his Instructors He was a man
Of erudition and scholarship, and with all
his stores of immense knowledge, yet