FATHER VAUGHANT'S FUNERAL

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 307, 28 December 1922, Page 6

FATHER VAUGHANT'S FUNERAL

WONDERFUL SERVICE.

(From Our SpecUl Corresponded.)

IOXDOX, Xovmber ). •ent owing to ill-health. The remaTn. «ere laid on a catafalque cohered «• Uh a purple pall and flanked with liv Threat golden candlesticks. g Father Brampton. S.J.. delivered an h T ent re3S fr ° m the Pufe. which be as being peculiarly Fatter Ifernarde own. Tt was no eXa^ration said the preacher, to deacribTFather" V aughan a* being a power in the land. He »ould be remembered by many for ! s ' f \ of "predion, alike in the spoken word and the written na<re and hi. ability to sway the multitude recall hie utter fearkssnees in expre«■ng hjs convictions, his participation in many great public • his transparent simplicity o f character, and his wide human eympathies. He was Tejrardeci as the roiner of brilliant enijram*. master of phrases, posseted a distinfruishod presence, and a voice fine in its variety and ran 2 e a? to soar to every height and p]umb every depth of the human emotions. \\\ tho-e PTifls went a lone way to explain his power, -but they did not explain all behind them. Tn Father Bernard was something intangible, something hard to define, and that, for want of a better word, would be described ac personality. The majrnetism of his personality was at once dominating and wijinine:. He never wavered in hie career, and in his closing davj he said that if he had to choose again in life he would be a Jesuit.

"Ouando Corpus." from Rossini's "Stabat Mater," was sun? during the Offertory, and as the coffin, covered with a resplendent pall, was lifted from the bier in front of the high altar, Chopin's "Marohe Fnnehre - ' wa-« played.