Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-23

tons glory; to respect it, not only as
the pledge of opportunities and privi-
legeS, but regard it too, as the re-
minder of the duties and obligations
of every man who has been born or
lives in the land over which it waves.
He would light in the hearts of the
younger generation the patriotic fire
that burned in his own soul; in the
class room he placed the portraits of
our country's heroes TO enthuse the
children's heart--in their hands, he
placed the annals of our people and
near the cross he raised the flag, that
the inspirations and the motto of
young Catholic lives might be, their
God and their country. He had an
abiding confidence in his fellow citi-
zens and attached little significance
to the waves of bigotry and prejudice
that, from time to time sweep over
the land. against the Catholic church.
He was convinced that the intelligence
and honesty of righteous men would
make them realize that hatred is not
religion and that they who create re-
iigious strifes are neither patriots nor
Christians and do a cruel wrong to the
cause of Christ. He was keenly alive
to the dangers of the day and no one
could more scathingly inveigh against
the folly and the luxury of the present
time; the growing disregard for the
sanctity of an oath, the betrayal of the
common good for private gain and the
prostitution OF public office to indi-
vidual ambition. He knew the great
ness of his country, of its resources, of
its achievements, of its history, but
its true greatness he contended, must
rest upon loyalty to God as the only
sure foundation. Therefore, he longed
to bring the knowledge of Jesus Christ
and His law to every citizen OF the
land for he was persuaded that ma
ton that lives without God, must
share the fate of those that have
passed away; has within itself the
seeds of it's own decay and goes for
ward only to it's own destruction.
Post Well Eearncd
This great priest, this great bishop,
this great citizen has passed away and
at last enjoys the rest for which he
longingly yearned.
Il have touched but lightly upon his
works and if /, who knew him as 1t
was given to few to know him, were
asked what were the salient traits of
his character, | would say, Kindness
to his fellowmen and loyalty to God"
Few men could do more kindly deeds
than Bishop Shanahan. More than
once, | have known him to leave his
work in Harrisburg to visit the hospi-
tails in Philadelphia for the comfort
and consolation of the sick who had
been pupils in his parish schools.
More than once has he come to Phila-
delphia, to give pleasure to child,
repeatedly he came t9 visit the af-
hicted who in the days of. his early
ministry had been loyal to him, and to
visit the homes that death had made
desolate. Few men have felt kindness
as he did, and were more grateful for
lit. Yet he couid do acts that were
seemingly ruthless and unkind. But
the irresistible force of duty COM
PEELED him: and l am sincerely per-
Isuaded that he never deliberately in
ficted sufrerings on others without eX-
periencing greater suffering himself.
He had vowed loyalty to God in his
ordination; he had repeated that vow
in his episcopal conservation, and
neither human respect nor love of
friends, nor claim of kindred, nor his
own anguish of soul could move him