small or
mean toward or in his dealings with his fellow-men.

What better eulogy can we pronounce upon him than this? None. We
have forgotten half our duty to-day if in our presence here whilst
the priest has offered up for him the holy sacrament of the mass,
we have not let our own hearts go out in charity, holiness and love
toward him that is gone.

Now he is powerless; his days are past, and the church has done
what she possibly can for him through her prayers and sacrifices.

It remains for you to do something for him. We believe that there
is a hereafter, and that there is a probation for the small defects
and defilements of sin that may be upon the soul after death.

It remains for us, his friends--for there is a communion of
saints--to offer up our alms, to offer our prayers and the holy
sacrifice of the mass that his soul may quickly and surely find
rest and peace with God eternal. That is your duty, my friends,
to-day. As Catholics and Christians this is imposed upon you, and
if you forget it or neglect it you are not truly his friends.

Any more words of praise will be useless for him. But your prayers,
the prayers of the poor and defenseless that he helped, will go as
a sacred cry to the throne of God and will not be resisted, for God
will hear it and take him to the bosom of his fathers. Let us then
not forget to promise that we will as friends and Christians do
something for him, and in the purity of our faith let us imitate
the purity of his faith, the faith that he drank in with his
mother's milk and that lasted him through life. There never was a
time in the associations or organizations to which he belonged, or
anywhere else, that he denied that faith, that he ever was ashamed
to acknowledge that he was a Catholic and held to the tenets and
belief of the church. He could say: "After my title of Catholic my
title of patriot is prominent, and I am not ashamed to confess it
to the world. I am willing to sacrifice anything in order to defend
my term of Catholicity, and I am willing to do all in my power to
help along the poor men of our country."

Therefore, my friends, pray for him who is gone. Let your prayers
be that his soul may find rest. Remember him in your daily prayers.
Remember him in the places you used to meet him