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Show Father O'Growney. (Dublin Freeman.) We question if there has ever been seen in th Irish capital such a magnificent procession as that which passed through the streets of Dublin on Sunday behind the remains of Father Eugeno O'Growney. "What Father O'Growney had done for his people needed not to be said at his graveside; it was there in the long line of children, and younir men and women which stretched for miles behind his coffin across the city. There were two funerals in the Irish capital with which Father O'Growney'3 is comparable ParnelFs and Terence Bellew Mac-Udanus's. Mac-Udanus's. Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, as the world goes, was a much greater man than the humblo 1 professor of Gaelic at Alaynooth. but what a con- j trast between the tributes paid by Ireland to tha : I remains of the two patriots. Duffy was conveyed J j to his last resting- place amid the regrets of a generation gen-eration that is passing away; .Father O'Growney wa3 triumphantly carried to the Broadstone by a generation that is only growing into manhood, and that is breast-high for his ideas and ideals. The Parnell funeral was one intense so for a great leader gone in his prime, and the Macifanus funeral fu-neral was a political demonstration meant to g'i the warning note to the Fenians; but Sunday's solemn sol-emn function took the character of both. It was a requiem and a tocsin combined. The long line of mourners was conveying to tl e grave the men who re-created the idea of a new Gaelic nation ; but it did not think of the dead. Davis sang passionately pas-sionately of a priest who, in "the proud year of 43." was indicted, while O'Connell, for his devotion t Ireland, and who, like Father O'Growney, died in harness, and in the midst of his work for the motherland: Ululu! ululu! Kind was his heart! Walk slower, walk slower, too soon we shall part. The faithful and pious, the Priest of the Lord, His pilgrimage over, he has his reward. By the bed of the sick, lowly kneeling. To God with the raised cross appealing. He seems still to kneel, and he seems still to pray. And the sins of the dying seem passing away. That was the feeling of thousands on Sunday about Father O'Growney. He came from the reo" pie, he worked for the people, and by the peoph) he was accompanied to his last rest. It is curious to reflect, too, that his remains came from far away California,x as HaeManus did, and after years of an earlier burial. The idea in both cases was the same. MaaManus, the dead Young Irelander, crystalizod the ideas of the Fenians. Father O'Growney, the. dead Gaelic leaguer, whose whole life was given to I the Gaelic cause, was the very embodiment of the j hopes and ambitions of what has come to be known as Irish Ireland. II was one of the first, if not. indeed, the very first, to strike the note of the new time; and within the walls of the gray old college ho inspired many a young Irish cleric with a love for Ireland of a kind so intimate and so beautiful that it seemed almost sacred in comparison with J the patriotism of the platform and the market- j place. "The sun set; but set not his hopeT Stars rose, hi3 faith was earlier up; t Fixed on the enormous galaxy, i 1 ; Deeper and older seemed his eye: " j And matched his sufferance-sublime s The taciturnity of time. I He spoke, and words more soft than rain Brought the Age of Gold again." In the day in which he did his great work Father O'Growney was unknown except to his pupils, pu-pils, in Maynooth, to a few Gaelic scholars, to a hundred or two Gaelic enthusiasts. Then i.ll-health i.ll-health overtook him and he sought rest and health in another country. He did not look for famo; but in his retirement on the far shores of the Pacific, Pa-cific, when it might have been thought that h" would have been forgotten, his name became in Ireland familiar as a household word. "Wc all learned, fortunately, in this case not when it win too late, what we owed to the late Gaelic professor profes-sor at Maynooth. Father O'Growney became ;i well known in Irish schools and Irish homes as tho J catechism or the simple arithmetic; and his ''I'.asy Lessons" became as popular as the most fascinat- j ing detective stories. Who can realize what tlm j modest priest without the slightest fuss or boast; ing, has done for Ireland and for her ancient la'1' guage? It is incalculable. And how pleasant it 1 was on Sunday to find that Dublin and Ireland. j and the Gaelic league, fully realized the debt. Xoth- j ing about the procession was so beautiful as tho j enormous proportion of children who took part m it; nothing so impressive s to see the large number num-ber of Catholic clergymen who walked after tho great patriot's coffin. Father O'Growney was worthily carried through the Irish capital. Ihe honor it did him was well won. He deserved the best tribute his nation could give him; and it garfl j it to him on Sunday with reverence and admiration and most deep affection. |