The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-27
FATHER LEO
 IS EUL0GIZED Strong and Beautiful Funeral Grafton. ANARCHISTS ARE SCORED Church Crowded to 0verfIcwing and Thousands Turned Away. rhe Funeral Procession was a Nota- ble One ana Thoasands stood
 nsreheaaea In streets AS
 Hear.e Passed.

Denver. Col, Feb. 2e.--With the sol- eu4nitv and reverence due to his holy position and spotIess character, me bodv of Rev. Father Leo Heinrichs was taken from St. Elizabeth's Church to- dav. to the Union Station. where it was placed aboard the Burlington train 70 be forwarded to Paterson, N. J., where the Franciscan Fathers nays thet American headquarters.
 Tha funeral procession was nota- bic one and was witnessed by thous- ands who stood bareheaded as tne hearse passed. The parade was Ted py a squad of police and Q company oI fha Knights of St. John, in full unf- form and with drawn swords. acted as e guard of honor. The Knights or Columbus and representatives or nu- n1erous Catholic societies followed on foot and a long string of carriages bronrht up the rear. When the ser vices were begun in the church at 10 o'clock this morning every available seat was filled and a crowd Of 5000 persons waited patiently outside the the church ceremony was over.
 Inside the church were many of the prominent citizens of Denver, inciud- ing Governor Henry A. Buchtel and Mayor Robert W. Speer. solemn hign mass was recited and the service was in.tressfve. Rev. Father Wm. O'Ryan delivered the funeral sermon, in Which he Highly eulogized the martyred priest.
 Fmther 0sFsynm'9 Sermon.
 The. Rev. Father ORyan said in part: aThat any sermon attempted on this solemn occasion is not because or Father Leo. tho simple Franciscan Friar. who Is dead. nor even because of the high offense against the Al- mighty Father of us all who lives, but because of society in which we live and it's outraged and ioosened bond of law. Crimes such as that of last Sun- day are assaults on no mere individual, they are against you and me and all of us They strike and wound law and justice in her holy sanctuary whence breathes the very life ot the civilized state.
 Father Leo was struck down. the murderer confesses. because he was q priest. and not for any fancied griev- mnc@ or imagined injury that the mur- deraf haas received from him. He new or knew tho dead priest; he had never spoken with him. Their lives except In that one dread moment Of blood and sacriIege, had never touched. Nor did he kIIl him, as priests have been killed. ia hatred of his special creed. But the flend knew that the priest was some outward symbol and present ambassa- dor of that only authority by which kings reign and Magistrates execute justice and human law rears itself in awful dignity and finds It's sanction --fhe authority and governance of God. And because the murderer had revolted against Gods authority his rebellion went to its uttermost logical conclusion In action. he revolted against it's pres ence in the world of human law, and broke it untf1 it gushed human blood. he Tevolted against it's outward symbol, khe priest, and slew him.
 aThe murderer was logical. The anarchist never truer to his diabolical principles than when he stays a Catho- lie priest and stays him at the altar of God. It matters not that the in- dividual priest possesses little of the worlds power or goods, nor desires them for himself; 1t matters not even that he is a follower of that blessed Francis. who chose Lady Poverty for his bride and gave his great love to the poorest things and the most un- loved. Wherever he is. the Catholic priest in some great way carries in himself that church of authority and of good and externalizes her to men. He Is an officer in that great army whose tramp is around the world, whose discipline is most perfect; whose organization Is most minutely refined.
 
 the enemy of disorder and anarchy in the hearts. in the speech, and in the actions of men as opposed to just human government and divine rule.
 Scores Anarchy.
 @Yes, he was logical. He might hate the ministers of other Christian bodies. but not with the similar hate-the inn potent hate that stays; for they alas, are too divided to be dangerous to him. He might hate king. for he rules; but kings come and go and kind ly policies have their chances and changes. But the Catholic priest Is slain but to live and the Catholic policy. the Catholic accents of morality are unchanged and unchangeable as the throne of God. He saw this at home in Italy. that here is not the parliament of the King that his crown to him; 1t it not the army of Italy that saves her from the spelling of the solialists and the red hand of the anarchists; though weakened by many defeetions, the one strong, coherent, unyielding power Is stiil an imprisoned pope and an ill., used church. And hence the whole foul brood of them. the socialist who breaches and the anarchist who trans