Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-10-07


miration and love.
"A mans physician has an admirable
opportunity TO learn his true charac-
ter. In times OF sickness, especially
during a mortal illness. a mans soul
shows forth through the convention.
alities that usually distinguish him
from his fellow men. The veneer. that
custom and convention put upon US all,
is torn away and the grain Of the real
man beneath is exposed. Many a man
passes for great before the world
whose intimates know him to be petty
Of heart and small of soul and utterly
unable to measure up to the standard
Of true moral greatness. The contrary
is likewise true. The heart of the
whole world was shocked a few weeks
ago by the tragic death of a great
figure In our own public life. who was
so gentle. so kind, so considerate. so
affable. so patient. VINO treated all men
with such uniform tenderness. who was
SO even and calm in contingencies and
so unruffled in all emergencies. that
the perversity of some small minds
called him an actor and dissembler
But the great tests-suffering and
death. showed that they were wrong
proved that he truly possessed in plsn-
titude true greatness of soul, based on
faith in God and on the knowledge
that the man who clings close to God
cannot go far astray and may we'll d s.
regard the criticisms of his enemies.
My intimate acquaintance with
Brother Duffy showed me that he pos
sessed in a high degree the virtues
have mentioned. He was gentle and
Kind always. calm and unruffled when
most men would have been provoked
ever eonsiderate OF the feelings and
comforts of others; and in that gre1t
sublime test, the journey, the long.
weary journey through the darkness
of the valley 81 the shadow of death,
he was patient and brave. His thoughts
at that time, as at all times, were for
others-for those he was leaving be-
hind--his wife and children. He
would have been glad to live but chiefly
that grief and distress might be warded
off from them.
In a word, he possessed and devel-
oped the ordinary natural virtues in a
marked degree. In like manner he Gull
tivated the great divine virtues-faith
and hope and love.
His faith was ideal: his trust in
God was absolute. making him resign
ed TO death even In the prime OF his
manly life, in the prime when life Is
dearest and sweetest and most desired
His heart re-echoed the words, 1t Is
Gods way. His will be done And so
he went to his death with a brave
heart. trusting where he could not see.
His faith in Gods church was shown
by his ardent and devoted Catholic
ism throughout his. whole life. and by
his strict observance OF the precepts OF
the church With his faith he united
the virtues of hope and love. hope TO
be given the grace TO persevere TO the
end, and love for God and his fellow
men.
His love for his family and for his
associates was shown in a praetic !
manner, by forbearance. by charity I
speech, by his willingness to help 9th
ers and see the best. side of others
and to forget their faults.
THE qualities that made him a good
Catholic. a good man, good husband
and father, made him of necessity a
good citizen of the State. Brother
Duffy's life was not lived in the broad
glare of publicity or renown, but it was
a noble life nevertheless, nay, perhaps
all the more because il did not have
the reward of the worlds applause to
give it daily encouragement and re-
newed incentive.
Such was the brother whom he
mourn to-nightN His name has been
called and called again, and even a
third time, and there has been no an
swer except the absent, uttered by an
others lips.
There is no consolation for us ex-
eept that which our faith offers us for
his untimely death, in the thought that
it is Gods way, and His way is always
right, if we but knew. A thought with
something of compensation in it is that
of all the members OF our council none
could have been called by death better
able to impress upon us by his life and
by the manner of his leaving it. the
virtues OF the layman devoted to Cath
Ollie unity, to charity and to brotherly
love.
Let us then, brother knights, make
this meeting truly what its name i'm
plies-a memorial meeting, bearing in
mind that the noblest and most endur-
ing memorial we can erect to our
brothers honor consists in perpetual
ing the virtues and characteristics that
made him dear to us
This meeting may become men,
DRY; it's inspiration may pass away;
the press of care and toll, of business
and of pleasure may crowd out the
thoughts of the love we are now ex-
pressing, but the need for the continu-
ance of the virtues we praise will still
remain.
Let us, like him, honor gentleness,
generosity, kindness, integrity, patience
and fortitude under Gods rod, and di-
vine faith and hope and love abiding
even to the end, and we shall adorn his
memory with garlands Of his own
choosing. Let hia life, like the light
of an extinguished star, still continue
to shine with its precious bequest of
inspiring example, leading us nearer to
God and to Gods church and to orr
fellow men,
The beautiful exercises were Der
spersed with music. Mr. Kenney play
ed an organ voluntary, and choir
sang the .'Miserere" before the roll call.
which opened the ritualistic portion of
the service. Miss Gertrude Reister ex-
quisitely rendered Grainger's Easter
Song" Particularly pleasing numbers
were the cave Verum" sung by Mrs