The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-03-24

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''The Last Rose of Summer" a violin
solo, was fitting crown to the musical
part of the programme. Sweet is the
breath of vernal shower, the bees col
lected treasure sweet" but sWeeter far
is ''music's melting fall'' from the vio-
lin of 9-year-old Arthur Petersen. No
one acquainted with the poetry of
Moore has listened to the music called
forth from the violin by Professor
Pe6ersen's talented boy without feel
ing deeply the truth of the following
lines:
Music, oh, how faint. how weak.
Language fades before thy spell;
why should feeling ever speak
When thou canst breathe her soul so
we'll"
The closing remarks of Father Grey
ward were very eloquent and a worthy
setting to perhaps the most beautiful
and artistic entertainment ever given
in All HalloWs. The first few sentences
caused his hearers to gaze with won
der, and as he proceeded, ''stfll they
gazed and still the wonder grew how
such overwhelming waves of sound
could proceed from one of anything but
Patagonia stature. His big stentorian
voice made the very floor vibrate, and
might, if possessing a little more of
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below that of a Webster or of an O'Con-
nell. His sentences were strong and
his climaxes massive and pow
erful; his delivery, as becoming a child
OF the sunny south, lively and aninat-
ed. Round after round of applause
greeted the higher flights of his fiery
an impassioned eloquence, which
charmed the sour' of all present, as
Professor Pedersen's music had al
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Gueyward dwelt principally upon the
vitality of the Irish race and their un-
dying loyalty to the faith of st. Pat
rick.
On Saturday morning at 9 o'clock the
Mass in honor of ST. Patrick was at
tended by all the students. After the
Gospel, Father GueyTnward preached in
MS usual eloquent and persuasive man.
ner.
FATHER GUYMARDs ADDRESS.
Men are not called great because
II any transitory power they welded
turing life, nor because of the amount
II praise or fiattery they received from
heir contemporaries, nor because of
some one act of virtue. but rather ac-
'ording to the degree of influence they
exercised on following generations by
moral character or intellect, by the soul
hey breathed into posterity. In this
manner does Peter the Great survive
n the policies of Russia, Frederick the
treat in the militarism of Germany.
The heroes Of independence in the lib
rty loving nature of the American
'eople. st. Patrick is great because of
rs far-reaching beneficent influence on
he Irish people. BY the manner in
Fhlc9s he breathed his virtuous soul
nto his people, as manifested in the
urity of Ireland's daughters, in the
enerosity of Ireland's sons, their love
I Christian learning and most of all,
heir undying faith.
he then showed how faith was the
ne distinctive characteristic in the
poStolic life of st. Patrick, from the
ay that he threw off the yoke of sIay-
ry TO the day when full of confidence
| himself and faith in his God he faced
on the hill of Tara and
rought it to an untimely and dishon-
red grave. This faith was implanted
the Irish character, showing itself in
s falth in itself as a nation. and in
s faith in God and it's religion.
falth IN itself when it can, after ,