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Show T EVERY INCH THE MINISTER OF GOD. The correspondent of a L03 Angeles paper, in his account of a round of the hospitals of San Diego after the horrible accident of the gunboat Bennington, speaks feelingly of a man whom many visitors to Southern California have learned to admire ad-mire and love, as do his parishioners Father Ubach, pastor of St. Josephy's church, San Diego: "A man turned in at the driveway and walked quickly across the lawn. He wore a long beard of iron gray 'and his hair was flecked with white, yet the brown eyes were young and the grasp of his hand had all the vigor of youth. "It was Father Anthony D. Ubach. 'I am glad to see you,' said the father, and it was his voice alone that said it. "These boys in here have need for Father Ubach,' said the doctor. "'That is why I am here. I will go in now if you will let me.' The doctor and the priest,one for the body and the other for the soul. " 'I will go in there now and do what I can." "And with another grip of the hand he was gone. "Tie was here almost all last night,' said the policeman. There is not a language on earth that he don't speak, and he goes about in there comforting comfort-ing every man in his mother tongue. , He'll do 'em good if any preacher can. I'm not a Catholic myself, my-self, but I know a good man when I see one, and Father Ubach will do for mine.' "And so the aged priest went from room to room, now helping the nurses with the sick and now dropping a few words into a conscious sufferer's ear. He was there to say the last word over the dying sailor, and his soft, Andalusian murmur was the last thing that many a dying ear heard last night." The dead of the Bennington disaster were buried in the military cemetery of Fort Rosencram?, and Father Ubach officiated at the funeral services over the Catholics. Father Ubach, despite his German name, is purely Spanish in every respect; in his bearing and manner, every inch the grandee and the soldier; sol-dier; in his character and goodness, every inch the minister of God's altar. - |
