The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-15
Touching Tribute Paid 5ss& To Father S71ith

| Blessed Sacrament. Mark you, then, how that great love of the Blessed Sacrament betrayed itself in our beloved. Summoned from his | first charge in Sharon with it's two out-missions, costing him hardships and sacrifices, he was advanced to place of wider influence in Waterbury. We sometimes are strangers to the inner world of our closest friends. So genial, buoyant, radiant, humanly wholesome are they that supernatur- the human. So might it have been with our friend, but when the charge was given him to erect a church, there came a flash upon his charac- ter through which we saw the world of love in his soul in the name given to that church in Waterbury, the church of the Blessed Sacrament. Again, when he was asked to form seeched his Bishop to give the church was the Blessed Sacrament there is an indication of the hidden life Of our friend, which shows be- there was a depth of spirituality. The ways in which he gloried in the beau | iy of the house of God all seem like so many revelations.
 His love of God Almighty and his love of his people in every field he Christ, brought him particularly among the toiling and the hard pressed, those who, were either poor or struggling. for whom his life was spent. You are an evidence of that. Coming to this city, he found field beyond the larger parishes, from which it was formed. He knew there were always people on the edges of Sacrament brought close to them to make them feel the beauty and DOW CT end sweetness of the faith with which Jesus Christ has blessed them.
 Loved the People.
 So, gathering a few together, pily had not appreciated the faith God had given them, did not know it's beauty and. power and its sweetness, until he brought it to them he be- gan his work here. You of the Bless ed Sacrament parish can testify by your devotion to your church. the unity of your support, your affection for the chief pastor of this flock, your true, sincere and deep Catholcity, how deep and strong was this spirit Of love for his people in his priestly heart. One could not be associated with him long without noting this strong mark of zeal that swas the foundation stone of his character. Spiritual Edifice.
 ''He would have loved to have re- mained here and finished the ework that God intended him to do for your
 
 he might receive. but for your saliva tion, he would have loved to have put above this basement the glorious church he had planned. Perhaps if he had permitted worldly glory or ambition to control him he might have had such a structure here from the very beginning, but no, it was not so much the temple of God in stone he desired, as the temple of God in the hearts of his people, so he built ha nof Sn no might have @ place where each of you, like stone upon stone. were be- ing built up in the love of God, whefe he might first build the spiritual edi- fee of God Almighty and then give expression to the material.
 Y, Lesson of Death. tftt'
 Death is the door to Heaven, the open widow through which the light of eternity comes to us. See how he was in death! For what death should mean for him, he lived. For that eternity he lived, and to that eternity he consecrated all things What we call death is the entrance into life. It should teach us how to live. You are to live, if the light from his life falls upon you, justly, honestly, purely so that when you come to pass on to | God, you will stand before the judg- ment seat, confident in the judgment | to be pronounced upon you to enter into the reward eternal that he has in store for you. This is. the lesson | of his death
 Reunion in Eternity.
 | "Remember him who has gone be- | fore you, your pastor, your leader, your friend. He has been your leader i from the beginning until now. May | he still continue to be your guide and your leader as you learn from him l the lessons he teaches you now, and may fou meet him in eternity before the throne of God. Oh. good priest ! of God. who has served and loved 1 Jesus Christ, who has gathered his reopIe around Christ, may it be your joy to be welcomed by Christ in eter- nifty and have these people around you as your flock there as well as | here, May Gods blessed light shine upon hi mand upon all the souls of 1 the faithful departed and bring them