Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-11-18 | Page 5 | Rev. John Ryan a Missing Friend

REV. JO! MM; II MISSING EH Editor Standard: There were many saddened hearts in Saint Josoph's church Sunday morning when they realized that the faithful, zealous assistant as-sistant of Father Cushnahan had gono to take chargo of the parish in Eureka, Utah. For the past nine rears, Father John Ryan has been so closely identified with Ogden and its interests that he had come to be ro-gardd ro-gardd as indispensable in our city, but with his. unfailing generosity and habitual hab-itual self-sacrifice, when Right Rev. Bishop Glass was, owing to the illness ill-ness o Father Manion, was in need of a pastor for Eureka, Father Ryan consented to leave the city to whoso rcsidonts ho had become warmly attached, at-tached, and labor in new fields. Seldom In theso days, does one meet with a young clergyman poBsesBlng all the gifts of mind and heart that nature has bestowed upon Father Ryan Ry-an Alert, witty, broad-minded, well vorsed in all subjects secular as well as religious, with a heart great enough to condone all forms of human hu-man weakness In others, while keeping keep-ing his own free from the slightest stain, Father Ryan has left behind him in the Junction City a host of friends who will over keep him in mind as one "Whom It Is good to havo Always genial to his fellow citizens at large, there are two classes of persons per-sons especially who will miss Father Ryan most tho sick to whom ho ministered min-istered soothingly and untiringly, and tho poor to whom his unostentatious charity was a veritable Godsend. As a gentleman, Father Ryan fully measured up to Cardinal Newman a standard, "One who never knowingly oKonded another," as a priest of God we can but say of Father Ryan what another priest-poot has written: "A Christ in rank and power, Bo thine tho Master's cross with love to bear, A.nd thine in endless life His crown to wear." (Signed) : SACRED HEART ACADEMY.