The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-05-17
AN ELOQUENT GRAFTON
sDy Archbishop Ryan at Funeral Of
Archbishop COrrirau.

nv late Archbishop Corrigan, at st. Pat
rick's Cathedral, New York, Arch
bishop Ryan said in part:
sss H "Your Eminence, Venerable Fathers
Of the Episcopate and Clergy, ant
Dear Brethren of the Laity: How I'M
u pressive in it's eloquence of silence is
this scene, and how salutary in its
6 lessons. Behold before you to-day q
s great priest, who, in his day, pleased
God and was found just. Behold him
I clothed in the vestments of his order
Il as he stood at the altar to offer sacri
flee and prayer for you and yours. HI
breaches his last sermon from thai
funeral pulpit. But yesterday, l may
say, he proclaimed the great conserva
tive Christian truths, which alone can
t preserve society from socialism and
anarchy. Being dead, lie yet speak.
MI. eth i'll the eloquence OF highest eNam-
pie For two purposes, then, are we
|S here this morning-to honor the dead
and pray for the dead. AS the public
|sf Journals have already given in detail
the biography of the late Archbishop.
| it is not necessary that l should re-
peat it. But the external actions Of
men are not adequate evidences Of
rs their real worth? 1t is the inner life
IT. Of motive and purity Of intention and
disinterested sacrifice that constitute
u the greatness of goodness Great
Il deeds inspired by ambition and tinted
M with vanity count as nothing before
AS God, and very soon sink into insigniti-
e canoe, and are forgotten by men.
t"The world knows it's weakness and
honors the magninimity that despises
& its ephemeral praise. The deceased
prelate shrank from it: his one great
motive Of action was to please God
and benefit, not merely please, his fel-
B his love of solitude and communion
with God. We daily hear of men who
! know not, or knowing. ignore the true
Il philosophy of sanctity, stating that
pious bishops and priests did we'll in
the Middle Ages, but that in this
/ twentieth century we need not ascot
les, but sturdy public men. The truth
4 is, we need the combination of both,
but if they are not found united, the
ascetic is preferable.
'The man who acts and prays as the
ascetic at home will be the most sue
| cessful churchman in public. Nhe
h purity of motive of our beloved and
4 to his most labOrious life. He worked
I for God and in His presence, and
\ never thought he could do enough.
\ know from personal observation how
Il extraordinary We're his labors. He
N performed them, not only with pa
h thence, but almost with boyiSl enthus-
Il iasm. Some one has said that cnthus-
iasm is out of place in advanced age,
(and that it belongs to youth alone. No;
A 1T belongs to motive alone. The young.
II, fired by the enthusiasm of ambition or
B love, OF, higher still, human philan-
II thropy, are all atlnme until their ends
1 are accomplished. When ambition and
i love are satiatel or dead from dsap-
Il pointment, when philanthropy is chill
II ed by the bascness and ingratitude of
n those befriended, enthusiasm dies:
but, as God can never change, and the
u ambition to serve and love Him and
aid our brothers in distress for His
u sake must be permanent as Himself,
n the enthusiasm Of the true Christian
becomes perennial. Hence. Tertullian.
in the second century. called the old
Christian men bOys-senes pueri.
Hence also the fortitude of the de-
NJ ceased when circumstances called fer
Hsits exercise. The three Archbishops
S~O this great See were types of different
\ Characteristic virtues. The most Rev.
John Hughes stands out as the most
striking eXemplfication of courage,
n when courage was needed. Cardinal
Nice losley was distinguished for his
4AdlSS ~ uNtSIi't. ny NlINH IC SUli-
{squered without fighting. Archbishop
&eyC Orrigan seemed to belong rather to
TN the Cardinal NIcCloskey class of men.
when principle was involved he
eSswas as unmovahle as Archbishop
SHughes. His motto. 'Dominus petra
inca ('the Lord is my rockO, was first
That of the meek but brave patriarch,
Moses. The Archbishop himself was
as a rock-mossy and yielding on the
y surface but beneath, firm and i'm
ENJOYABLE. He was brave with the cour-
,Eage of God. for whom alone Inc acted
and suffered. His humility seemed to
make him timid. l know, on the tcsti.
mOny Of Cardinal McCloskty, that he
did all in his power to prevent his
~ name being sent to Rome for the dig
Esnity Of Archbishop of New York. HI
feared the awful responsibility. SC
did some of the greatest Bishops tina
lever lived; but when they had to &c
cept the Office they became the BRAY
est So did st. Ambrose, who after
Inward resisted the Roman emperor
TheOdosius, and st. Thomas of Rcck
let, who braved the anger of THE Eng
l. lish king. Henry III. In the cOmbina