This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...there is in heaven a just appreciation of merit, of good and faithful service, for God remunerates with an imperishable laurel the least of the labors of man, done for His honor and glory; there is here on earth a Church immortal, loving mother, who will hold sacred as her own life his memory and his name, and insure ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...there is in heaven a just appreciation of merit, of good and faithful service, for God remunerates with an imperishable laurel the least of the labors of man, done for His honor and glory; there is here on earth a Church immortal, loving mother, who will hold sacred as her own life his memory and his name, and insure to them the recognition and benediction of generations yet to come. Had the world to glorify the charming existence that has just become extinct in our midst, we would behold it, midst the pomp and glitter of ceremonials, placing at the same time upon his bier crowns, dedicated to nobility, to friendship, to virtue. But with what more lasting ritual does religion crown those beautiful endowments of character. He whom Holy Mother Church mourns over with us, possessed in a high degree those enviable, beautiful traits. His good. and affectionate heart knew all the sympathy, all the sweet tenderness of friendship; but broadened by divine grace, it broke through the bounds of narrow acquaintance and elevated itself to those tender duties of unselfish, of unbounded charity. The virtue of this man of God was a sacerdotal virtue; and the whole course of his life, laborious and pure, is not unworthy the ideal type that Christianity fosters and imposes upon its ministers. There is no true eulogy save the one which is the offspring of generous deeds; and the works of the life so thoroughly Christian, so beautifully sacerdotal, the course of which we undertake to briefly unfold, seem to me to be contained in the words of the sacred text: "From my youth I have loved and sought out wisdom; I became a lover of her beauty; I took her with me to live with me; knowing that she will communicate to me of her good things, and will be a comfort in my cares and ...
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