The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-23
The MEMORY OF
FATHER VAUGHN
Memorial Mass Will be Celebrated
Sunday Morning at 1880 O'Clock
at St. Francis De
Sales.
FRIENDS TRIBUTE
Father Ren'han, Formerly Of This
City, Called to GAINESVILLE
to Deliver months
Mind"

II Do odieS CatnOl1C church. g.
memorial mass will be celebrated by
hev. James Dunnion and attended nv
De La Sale Council knights Of Co
lumbus, in honor Of the late Father
vaughn, the well known Catholic
priest and lecturer, who was quite
Well known In Keokuk.
Father J. H. Renihan. Of ST Marv,sl
parish, Oskaloosa. and former pastor
OF st. Francis De Sales Catholic
church, was called to GAINESVILLE. wis.
to deliver the Months Mind" to the
memory OF this great dramatic sneak
er The Grafton delivered by Father
Renihan was In the nature OF a per.
sonal tribute in memory of his de.
ceased friend with whom he had been
intimately associated in literary and
other work. The tribute delivered
with great feeling and force Of which
Father Renihan is capable, was as fol-
lows:
4 now approach with much feeling
and reluctance, my personal tribute
to my dear friend. Father Vaughan
is dead and buried. This Months
mind in his memory, and public tes-
timony of brother priests, will in all
probability close further public dem
onstration in his honor. He was a
faithful priest of the church and she
has paid fitting tribute to him. Few
men have been blessed with such mar
Vicious talents, and few could have
dispensed them with such untfring
energy. He loved the truth and was
never afraid to defend 1t. He knew
truth had no fear of investigation he
knew truth loved the open day; that
its enemies are darkness. ignorance,
egotism and bigotry, and that knowl.
edge, intelligence and candor, love
and honesty are Its eternal friends
In the PRONUNCIATION Of truth who can
even estimate the good unwritten and
unknown that he has done? No
doubt our Lord was we'll satisfied with
his labors, though seemingly short
they appear. called him home to rest,
as he did the Apostle after the heat
and toll of the day, when he babe them
now Come rest awhile How sweet
is rest, friends, when the days work
is done. Who Of us betimes do not
sigh and long for it? Rest from the
cares and disappointments of the
world. We are informed the tree is
known by It's fruits-that 1t is the
fertile soil brings forth the crop that
in the harvest time waves in the sun
light OF Gods heavens. Man is judg-
ed by his works. What is music but
the rhythmical annunciation OF the
artists soul? When in charms sever
est rage and dispel severest grief.
The painter animates the canvas, and
by the superb blending charms our
senses, and raises the standard Of our
ideals. The sculptor by his skilled
stroke of hammer, transforms the
uncouth rock and brings forth images
Of the departed. And what of the
writer and orator. Listen-no man
can write or say beautiful things I'm.
less he be man of high ideals and
lofty aspirations. You know the rose
never prospers among rocks and like
foundations. The rose only thrives
charms our pathway with its bloom
ing, but from the finest soils and
cared for by the skilled hand of the
husbandman. Along these lines per-
NIT me to call your attention to one
particular writing and lecture of
Father Vaughan. It is the lecture
sermon known as "The Power of
Love-" That lecture has created
more comment than any lecture ever
delivered on the American platform.
It's power has been felt and duly ap-
preciated from sea to sea. This mes
sage Of Gods mercy and mans human
ity to man, no doubt awakened the
heart of saint and sinner with the
eloquence Of Its breathings. To the
merciful it pleads for greater mercy
and higher perfection. To the luke
warm 1t pleads for a change of path
way and greater tensity; 1t warns the
criminal Of his downward career and
caused the curious seeker who came
to scott to remain to pray. No man
could have written SO Of God -unless
a disciple of our Lord. No man could
be so imbued with the spirit Of Christ
so as to thrill audiences with the
eloquence of his fervor unless his
writings and preachings were not
from his lips-but from the sincerity
of his heart. The appreciation and
worth of his service was fully dem.
onstrated when the news of his
death, SO sudden and unlocked for.
startled this country. know of no
churchman who addressed more aud
fences of various creeds and beliefs
in this country than Father Vaughan.
know of no man who has borne
the honors and triumphs of attained
achievements as he. With all his
power and talents he was as humble
as child, sometimes think 1T is too