The Irish standard., 1910-12-03
A, o. H. OF MILWAUKEE
Sends Word of Coincidence to Prof.
Monauhan.

Sends Word OF Coincidence 10 froT.
Monaghan.
At the direction of Division No. l.,
A. 0. H., of Milwaukee, the follow
ing letter of coincidence was sent to
DR.. James Monaghan by Prof. Mi
chael G.. Rohan, national chairman Of
irish History Committee. It will be
remembered that DR.. Monaghan was
recently stricken by a paralytic
stroke while delivering lectures at
Portage, Wis.
Milwaukee, Wis, Nov. %, 1910.
Frof. James G. Monaghan, National
Lecturer, Knights of Columbus,
Portage, Wis.
Dear Prof. Monaghan:-At a meet
ing of Division No. /, Ancient Order
of Hibernians, held last evening in
our hall, I was appointed to draft a
letter of coincidence to you, mem
Der of our Milwaukee Division, and
deputed to visit you at Portage, and
present our testimonial of sorrow in
your serious affliction.
AS an intimate friend of yours for
many years, as a man who has ever
admired your brilliant and scholarly
attainments, your unfaltering devo-
ton to lofty ideals and ennobling
purposes, your unflinching fidelity to
the aims and objects of the Ancient
Order of Hibernians whose member
ship you honored by initiation into
it's ranks, the melancholy task OF
meeting you on this occasion Is, to
me, a painful one. Painful, because
the wall of the sufferer, no matter
whence it comes, appeals keenly to
my makeup, but when the victim, alas,
is one on whose friendship and sup
port I could rely upon at all times,
doubly tender Is the pang that pierces
my every fibre.
/ known from east to west, from
north to south, yea, across the briny
waters of the broad Atlantic, es-
teemed and commended for those
gifts with which benign Providence
so bounteously endowed you, your
sudden and unexpected illness sends
a throb of regret to the tens Of thou
sands who hung entrancingly on yovr
matchless eloquence.
/ Your exemplary life, your unsullied
character, your sterling worth, has
made you an ornament to society, a
credit to the Church, and an honor
to the stock from which you have de-
seconded.
! Stricken down while delivering
your inspiring lecture by the hand OF
Him who allows not a blade of grass
to perish unatoned; stricken in the
full bloom of a vigorous manhood
with your life's work but well started,
with roseate hopes and future
achievements snapped in twain for
the present, nevertheless, we humbly
bow to the irrevocable DEGREES of
Providence, and, much as we esteem
and sympathize with you in your sick
ness, we are constrained by the re-
ljgion inculcated by Irish fathers and
mothers in our early youth to ex-
claim: "Not my will, but thine be
DONE"
| Deprived of health for the time be-
ing, unable to pour forth from your
fertile brain and analytic mind those
great moral, religious and patriotic
lessons that aroused to action so many
audiences, your absence from the
platform is distinct, and might say,
irreparable loss, not only to the
knights of Columbus, who honored
you with the position of national lee.
turer, not only to the Ancient Order
of Hibernians, whose great work was
dear to your heart, but your absence
from the field of action is serious
blow to the Catholic Church in the
United States. Your brother Hiber.
mans of the great Milwaukee Divi.
sion are, however, hopeful that your
sickness will be of short duration,
that rest and care will soon restore
! you to your former vigor, that the