The herald., 1898-02-15
REV. MEYERS FUNERAL
HIGH MASS AND ABsoLUTIoN
WILL BE CELEBRATED
The Cortege Win Be Longtime of
March-The Order Of Procession.
Resolutions Adopted

A continuous line of people viewed the
remains of the Very Rev. A. ]. Meyer, c.
NJ. Sunday evening and all day yesterday,
as they lay in state in st. Vincent's church.
The floral offerings are numerous from So
cieties and friends, and were very beauti-
full. Last night vespers were chanted for
the dead.
The funeral services will commence at 8
o'clock this morning, when the office of the
dead will be chanted. At $3.50 solemn
requiem high mass will be celebrated. Rev.
Father Harnett of the Sacred Heart church
will preach the sermon. The absolutions
will be made by Bishop Montgomery. I'm
mediately afterward the funeral cortege
will move.
Bishop Johnson finds 1t impossible to
attend the funeral. but has delegated the
Very Rev. A. g. L. Trew, d. D., and the
Rev. John Gray as his representatives.
Both active and honorary pail bearers will
meet in the parlor of the college adjoining
the church at S:45 am.
The. line OF march will be, Washington
street to Main, thence to Ninth to Spring.
to Seventh. and will follow Seventh east
to New Calvary cemetery. At the orphan
asylum, on Boyle Heights, the children
of the asylum 400 In number will be
formed in double columns on either side
Of the road and will view the cortege as it
passes.
The order of the procession will be:
Alumni of st. Vincents college, Young
Mems institute. two branches: Ancient
Order of Hibernians Los Angeles Catholic
Beneficiary association, Catholic Order of
Foresters, St. Joseph's society, Sodalities
of parish, st. Vincent's college boys, altar
boys of st Vincent's church. pail bearers,
clergymcn. representatives of religious or
ders from different parts of Southern Cali
fornia.
Sunday afternoon the gentlemen of ST.
Vincents parish met in the college hall
and adopted the following expression of
their sorrow:
The parishioners of ST. vincent's church
this day in meeting assembled our hearts
heavily weighted in sorrow, with heads
bowed down In grief, deem it meet to give
expression to the sentiments which affiict-
ed nature now crowds upon US.
Yesterday we awoke to learn that the
grim reaper had been In our midst. Today
We stand appalled, I'm the face of death.
That spirit. who was largely instru-
mental in first causing the establishment
of this parsh-who then gathered us to-
gether to worship at common shrine.
who in the many years past has blessed
our nuptial ties, poured the baptismai
waters on our children's heads. and
sprinkled the biers of our dead-has been
translated to the other and eternal life
He whom We knew as Father Meyer, is to
us here no more. Death has released his
soul, and his inanimate and motionless
physical self serves now but as the ex-
hibition of deaths judgment
"A leader i'm Israel has fallen. To us
parishioners our loss seems irreparable
For the first time in our parish life we are
now, one and ALL in the painful throes of
a great affiiction.
"Oh, would that we could give our sor-
row words:
=" The grief that does not speak. whispers
the o'erfraught heart and bids 1t break
Father Meyer was our spiritual father
in the fullest sense of the term. To him
no sacrifice appeared too great, provided
it but promised spiritual benefit He was
assiduous in his ministerial work inde-
fatigable in his labor for us. He recog-
nized no season for his personal rest or rec
reation. He was at all times accessible.
"He was not alone the beloved pastor.
the finished educator, the man of affairs.
whose consummate genius stands por-
trayed on every page of the history of this
parish. he was a lover of mankind. and
fully typifed the words: He loved his
fellows and their love was sweet
mo line of creed did he know in his
friendship. his kindnesses. and among
those who mourn today are many attached
to other forms of religion He was an ex-
ample in his every transaction, whether as
priest. teacher. man of business or citizen.
His impress was always as plain and
simple as it was touching and well formed.
To live such life was to elevate man
kind, to leave such chapter was to add