The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-11-15

Mortgage Co.. and delegations from the
M 9rristown Field Club, Morris County
Golf Club, the Board of Fire Wardens
and Exempt Firemen's Association. Tn.
nterment was made in st. Marys ceme
terry.
Very Rev. Dean FIynn's EuIosy at
Chur. h Of the Assumption.
The Very Rev. Dean Flynn who
officiated ut the funeral of Paul
Revere, during the services spoke of
the deceased as follows:
Dear Friends:
We are in the sacred presence of
death Before us is the victim of
Gods invincible and resistless minis
ter, who spares neither the rich nor
the poor, the young nor the old, nei-
Their the mighty nor the lowly. The
evening shadows of we'll rounded
life envelop us In their pail; and our
hearts are chilled with grief, and
their depths stirred with awe, but
sooothed and comforted with hope
Soon, very soon, all that is NOR tai
of Paul Revere will be borne from
this church, borne to the silent Gods
acre, there to mingle dust with dust,
and to await, we trust, glorious
rising into Immortality. Rarely does
a death str community as his has
stirred ours. Rarely do we witness
grief so widespread as mark this day
for rarely does it happen that one is
in such close touch with the public as
was our deceased friend. His many
virtues, his sterling honesty and up
rightness. his active charity, and his
warm sympathetic heart won for him
hosts of friends, and enlisted him
in the discharge of all those duties
which should engage thoughtful
man, consistent Christian ana citi-
zen of this great republic. Honesty
of purpose, sincerity of intent and
thoroughness of action stamped and
characterized his every deed. Hence
we are not surprised that the highest
problem the soul is called upon to
solve-its relations to its Maker
pressed itself upon him at a time
when few entertain other thoughts
than those of pleasure and amuse-
ment. He was just reaching man
hoods estate when the darkness of
doubt swept over his soul. He must
grope along the thorny path which
so many others travelled before him.
He must taste the bitterness of men
tai desolation. Gifted with more than
ordinary talents, endowed with
winsome and affectionate q DISPOSE.
ton, strengthened by the prestige OF
family distinction, for him the future
dawned brightly and promised rich
rewards. Will he dash aside all these
hopes; will he sunder the tenderest
of ties; will he run the risk of losing
friends; will he break away from
the traditions of the past? With that
honesty, which was his strong personal
trait, when convinced of the wisdom
of his step, strengthened by divine
grace, he entered the fold of the
Catholic Church, from which an un-
holy persecution had driven his fore
fathers,
He with unruffled face
Bore the worlds smile, and babe
her slaves depart"
The one step was enough for him"
and he rocked not its cost in the fu-
ture.
For four and twenty years he has
been consistent member of the Ca
tholic Church and he has never
swerved in mis- loyalty or devotion to
it. There was no show, no ostenta-
tion to his piety, it was of the quiet
ana unobtrusive kind. He preferre d
that the influence of his church its
teachings and it's practices should be
reflected in his life. You know how
we'll he succeeded. His charity was
not confined to his church or creed. 1t
was in the broadcast sense Catholic.
Charity is virtue that belongs to no
one division. 1t is not solely Catho-
lie, Episcopalian, Presbyterian. Me-
thodist Charity is christian. 1t flows
from the heart of Christ upon all
members Of the human family. 1t is
the badge of his fellowship: "'By this
shall men know that We are my dis
ciples if you love one another John
xiii and ''all good deeds are done to
him." We, too often, lose sight of
the great fact that the single striking
example of this queenly virtue, ex-
tolled by Jesus Christ, was wrought
by one who was an outcast. and one
accursed of the true church of his
day-the Samaritan.
And so did Paul Revere strive to
carry ont in his life these principles
OF christian charity, succoring the
sick and the needy devising schemes
60 alleviate distress, counseling the
weak, squirting on the strong
peer of the noblest, the friend of the
owliest among whom he moved. /
ave spoken Of him as christian, as
{, his pastor, knew him, but no words
4 mine will do his memory justice
But it was as q citizen Won knew