The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-28
PIONEER EA|D At RtSI.
FUNERAL SERVICES OF II. IL. KEEL
LY AT 81. MARY's WERE
LARGELY ATTENDED,
FATHER GIBBONS SERMON
Ii Was am Eloquent Tribute 10 iii /.
Dead Merchants WGrth-Inter-
ment at Calvary
Cemetery.

The solemn requiem services commen2 :
ed at 10 O'Clock, but long before that
hour the building was crowded.
The central pews We're reserved for the
employees of Foley Bros. d Kelly and FOR
members of the Jobbers' union. The ell
tire church was draped in black and
the ceremony throughout was of u most
solemn character.
AS the procession entered the church
Miss Elsie Shaw, at the organ, played
Chopins matchless funeral march.
First were the ushers. Messrs. Frank
Towle, j. n. Hill, j. P. Kyle and w. A..
Hardenbergh. Following them were the
honorary pallbearers, Messrs. George r.
Finch A. Fl. Lindeke, j. II. Allen,
Michael Doran, Robert Manufacturer,
Maurice Auerbach, John A. Humbird,' j..
c. Geraghty, James ]. Hill, Peter Berlley,
Timothy Foley, Thomas Foley, Col. e..
B. Hunter, Alexander Barclay, James +.
Blaine and Thomas Grace.
Next in line were the active pallbearers,
with the casket. They were Alfred Du-
fresno, r. c. Gooding, o. r. Strong,
JUnn McCauley, James P. Murnane, j..
g. Clark, John j. Murphy and John Z.
Kelly
kev. Father Thomas ]. Gibbons cele-
brated the solemn requiem high mass,
assisted by Rev. Father Shields, deacon;
Rev. Father William McGolrick, of IN
Yer Grove, subdeacon; Rev. Father O Sui
Ivan, st. Mary's, master of ceremonies.
FATHER GIBBONS SERMON.
Rev. Father Gibbons took for his text:
Remember thy Creator in the days of
thy youth, before the time of aff1iction
comes and the years draw nigh, of
which thou shalt say: They Please me
not Before the silver cord be broken
and the golden fillet be shr:nl1en back $
and the Dust return into the earth
from which it was, and the spirit re-
turns to the God Who gave it, Eel.
12-I
Spoke as follows:
This body of distins uislled men, this
large gathering of people from every walk
Of life, these walls deeply draped in sa-
bled mourning, this solemn chant and i'm
presslve ceremony speaks more than
words can tell the significance and the
widespread sorrow of this occasion.
10 die, TO be buried in the tomb to
TO sever the ties of kindred and affection
and to sink into the darkness and silence
of the grave and to fall into its namelesS
dust, is indeed thought that we'll may
Il dread OF his worst anticipa tons In
| stinctively we cling to life; we cannot
and even the bravest and the best can
| not part from life without pang of sor-
row.
Yet death is certain cit is appointed
Judgment
There are truths of the greatest moment
that are so Striklngly evident and 50 fire.
Quently repeated that they fail to pro-
duce a deep impres sion en- the mind Such
for instance. is the brevity of time, the
length of eternity and the necessity of
salvation, etc. People speak of the
shortness of life and the length of eter-
nifty, and yet strange to say they mean
nothing by these words. They are cur
rent saying; they pass unchallenged; few
tlAir how Ito COL
utary impression on the soul.
1t is only when one who is near and
dear to US is dead 1t is only when one
whom we have known and loved is dead.
it is only when we stand as we stand to-
day, iii the solemn presence of the dead,
mat the true conception of the meaning
that we too must die, that a day will
come to each of US when weary OF the
world We shall lay down its burden and
go to the home of our eternity.
We pause in the midst of our bus
career, and LIE great question of human
existence comes before us. Whence came
IL ino Why am here? Whittier t; am go
hard to solve the mysteries of life and
death, but all in vain. They could not
to the problem of human existence an
honors, nor pleasures can compensate
| man for his toll and labor and his cares.
ana his anXieties Experience teaches
| that care sits and watches at the pillow
of wealth, that honor is am empty bubble
and that the cup of pleasure is filled
| with dregs. What, then, is the solu-
| ton Of life?
| God has spoken and He has given to
| life meaning and value Ee has spo-
| ken in nature by typifying d resurrection.
| The trees cast their leaves and branches
| ground and the wind whistles through its
| dry and brittle boughs. Why does it
| thus remain through the long dreary
months of winter if not only to become
| ornate in the spring again. The seed is
| planted in the ground; it Quickens and
| dies only to blossom into life again. God
| speaks to us of our future home beyond
! the skies by the analogies of nature.
| He speaks to us in the voice of nature
! He has settled forever the question of
human existence and has given TO life a
| meaning and a value.
The true view OF life is that this presen!
! lie is but preparation for that life
| that is to come. We are here on trial
| and probation, and on the issue of that
| trial will depend our everlasting happi-
ness or our everlasting Woe.
The argument for Immortality is not
| the anaJog1eS of nature the Resurrection
| of winters grave nor those great intellec-
| tual VerltieS for we all know how feeble
those truth become in the presence of
| temptatonl: no, the argument for inlmor-
tality Is that inner consciousness that
! We are destined for higher and no.
bier and purer life; and when we strive
the spirit we feel the spark Of immortal
| ity culver in our veins.
AS men view life differently, so they
! do death. To the wording death means
! the loss of all, and so it is for him. God
| has affixed a peculiar penalty to the vo-
| taries of this world it is that they can
not perceive the things that are of God.
| Seeing they cannot see, and hearing they
| do not understand"
TO the. Christian, death is the gateway
OF eternity. He looks forward to it as
the pilgrim does to the end of his iourn-
| ey. He signs for it as the poor exile
signs for his native home
| 1t is not of death, but of the awful
responsibilities of life that that inspired
member thy Creator, etc. our course
| In the great hereafter is shaped by our
| conduct in the present life
Each one must give an account of his
| of life, of his duty to God as well as
| his duty to his fellowman
| A pioneer. one who has been closely
| identified with the great movements OF
| trious, active and energetic business
man is dead. His body lies here before
| you and you join with me to saw the
| last tribute to his memory
Mr. Kelly came to Minnesota in 1857
came to make home, he can we'll be
called a pioneer, one of that advance
| guard that came westward to lay
the building up of a great city.
Minnesota's pioneers were men of enter
| prise, of tireless activity, of lofty dar-
| ing and they forced success to arrest
! her loot at their doors. They were as
| steady as they were active; their OBJ
Ject was to grow up with the city taey
| We're building.
portunity for the display of energy. All
| had to be built up.All that is grand now,
| had its likeness only in miniature then
The factory had its shop, the wholesale
| its capital city, its village, the state its
| territory. The threads of the network