The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-07-05
A BELOVED PRIEST.
Touching Tribute to the Memsry Of
Father Mcintyre.

As already announced in these col
umns, the solemn requiem services OF
the late Rev. Michael Mcintyre were
held on Friday morning of last week
in st. Michael's church, West st. Paul
Archbishop Ireland and seventy of his
priests attended the obsequies, and the
following sermon was preached by
Very Rev. Joseph Campbell. professor
at st. Paul's Seminary:
If any man will come after Me, let
him deny himself and take up his
cross and follow Me.-Matt. xvi, 26.
My dear friends. we are Christians;
we believe in the miraculOuSly con-
firmed doctrine of Christ; we believe
that this world is not mans last rest
ing place; we believe that this earth
OF ours is for man Il place of tempo
rary probation; we believe thele is an
other world beyond the grave, where
the spiritual human soul is t. attain
its complete and perfect satisfaction.
w u DS7liSNS lllC wa. VI Slll iStiNI
salvation is Il path Of responsibility
undertaken, duty performed, and self
denial undergone. We know that
Christ our Savior submitted to the will
of His Father; we know that the life
of Christ was Il life of self-deni;l BY
His miraculously confirmed doctrine,
by His own concrete example, the
Savior of the World would teach lis
that the way to everlasting glory is
duty done, self denied. rha life Of
every true Christian must he Il life
of devotion to duty, the life OF every
true Christian must be a l:fe of self
denial. If this is true of every Chris
tan it is doubly true of the Christian
priest.
This morning you are assembled to
pay Il last tribute of respect to the
memory of Il Christian priest: You are
assembled to pray for the repose of
the soul of Il Christian priest; you are
assembled to pay a last tribute of re-
spect to the memory of one who was
sponsiblitics: you are assembled to
pray for the soul If one who was
called upon for special self-denial; you
are assembled to pay Il last tribute of
respect to the memory of Father Nc
Intyre; you are assembled to pray for
the rcpose of the soul of Father Nc
Intyre.
Christian prieSt II man called
upon to offer up with Sanctited hands
the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass; man
called upon to administer, with spot
less soul, the sacrament of Christian
reconciliation. Going, therefore,
teach We all nations, baptizing them
in the name of the Father and of the
Son and of the Holy Ghost Teaching
them to observe all whatsoever l have
commanded YOU" Matt. xviii, 49,
49, go we into the whole world and
preach the gospel to every creature"
Mark xvi. 49, "And He gave some
apostles and some prophets and other
some eyangelists and other some pas,
tors anu doctors. Until we all
meet into the unity of faith and of the
knowledge Of the Son of God" (Iph.
w.. II, 80
Without Christian doctrine the hui
man intellect is bewildered by mys-
terry. Stars are balanced in incomprc-
hensible space; planets have regulated
mass and motion; the slightest change
would mean utter confusion. universal
destruction. Who made the stars, so
many and no more? What gave the
planets mass and motion, so much. no
more and no less? What is man?
Why is man not satisfied with any
thing this earth can offer him? Why
is man not satisfied with riches, hon.
ors. material pleasures? Why 50 much
physical pain and mental suffering in
the world? Why is man inclined to
TO that which reason declares lie
should not do? is death the end of
all for man? These are Il few of the
questions which puzzled the giant in
tellects of pref Christian times: these
are questions answered only by Chris
tian doctrine.
The universe is not the result of
eternal force uctng on eternal matter.
Man is nat Il mere mAterialistic c.;smic
accident. The universe and man are
creatures of q d. Physical pain, men
tai suffering. ard inclination to evil
are chiefly the results of sin. The soul
OF man is not Of this world: the soul
OF man is imnaterill; the Splll Of man
is spiritual. Only in the life beyond
the grave is the spiritual human soul
destined to find its complete satisi'ac-
ton. Justice. religion. social obedience
and temperance are the conditions de
manded for securing this happiness
I'm the beginning God created heaven
and earth (Gen. t., ~ ".As by one
man sin entered into the world and by
sin death; so death passed upon all
men, Rom. ". 12) Eye has not
seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it
entered into the heart of man, what
glory God has prepared fer those who
love him." q. Cor. H., 81 "4Al things
therefore whatsoever you would that
men should do to you, Ito you also tic
them" Matt. viii. 12.) Render
therefore, to Caesar the things that arc