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Show ARCHBISHOP MONTGOMERY LAID TO REST .The scenes witnessed in San Francisco from the death to the burial of the late Archbishop Montgomery will be long remembered. The sorrow, sor-row, love and sympathy were as boundless a 3 they were universal. The church and state united in expressing their grief, because he was a sincere, earnest and devoted churchman, and a loyal and patriotic citizen. Simple and guileless, his only ambition was to serve God with all the zeal of his fervent' soul." 'ITe1 did this quietly and extensively. The best proof is the immense concourse of people who surrounded St. Mary's Cathedral last Monday, lie never sought popularity as may be seen from his public expressions wheu he spoke of the sane-lity sane-lity of ; the home, the evils of divorce and demoralizing demor-alizing influence of the corner saloon, yet he was among the moat popular of all the citizens of the state of California, and no one, not even those who failed to come up to his standard of a true citizen and practice the civic virtues which he inculcated in-culcated by .word and example, ever doubted his sincerity, or cherished for him an evil thought, becaa-e all. th? good and the bad, like to hear the truth by an Lou est and sincere soul. Of all the touching scenes and manifestations of sympathy there was nothing more solemn and pathetic than the tokens of love aiid affectioe shown by the real mourner, his bosom friend Archbishop Arch-bishop Riordan in Holy Cross cemetery. The gen erotrs tears which he shed whilst reading the last prayers of the dead bespeak a rational loye and tender ten-der affection which nothing but the sacred tie of leligion could beget, nourish and sustain. The weeping of our Lord .at the grave of Lazarus was taken as a mark' of his great love for the deceased. "Behold how he loved him." Twice, during the recital, re-cital, of the . short . prayers said in the cemetery. Archbishop Biordan faltered; could not speak, the tears flowed. These tears proclaimed his love and affection. It began in 1S53 when Archbishop Riordan Rior-dan came to Sau Francisco. As young men both equally zealous and devoted to the . upbuilding of the church they became mutual and confidential confi-dential friends. The young' archbishop, with clear discernment, saw from the beginning be-ginning in the young priest an ideal of a true, prudent and self-sacrificing priest. As the years passed by bis first impressions weiv n. .- f than realized, and a imitmd ! -ve a:.d affcti.-c sprang up which neither time, nor I he change . of Archbishop M on tannery from San Francis,-,. Los Angeles did in the leat affect. Ii .!.;( -w j er as it grew older. Its frc-hness and vi .r , I fully attested when Archbishop Kim-dan in 1 uh: .. his last adieu in ihe name of the church lost ... j trol of his voice and wept. This visible mam:' I tation affected all who witnessed it. and " rm . from their hearts the expression. "Heboid h,.v ! I loved him." . The tribute paid by hi uec -sor in the .!... I cesc of Los Angeles was eloquent in i'- -,,,;.., . . j The illustrious dead was an object les,o,i ae-i " i was only neri--ary to appeal ro hi- works; "f..r ; man could do" what he necomplished. "unless (, be with him."' Bishop Cnatv followed hi- ,:.,,,,. less life from Kentucky fi!l the end came. ... I when the final -truygle was passed, it c ' j truly .aid. "B,'h'dd one in whom there w.i- i: I guile." . j |