A TRULY GREAT MAN

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 12, 14 July 1930, Page 10

A TRULY GREAT MAN

REQUIEM MASS

BISHOP WHYTE'S EULOGY

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

INVEECAEGILL, 13th July.

Never has there been a more impressive service in Invercargill than that in the Basilica this morning, when with' all the deep significance of the Boman Catholic Church Solemn Pontifical Bequiein High Mass was celebrated for. Sir Joseph "Ward. The Governor-General was represented by Sir John Hanham, The Prime Minister (the Hon. G. W. Forbes) and members of the Cabinet, the Leader of the Opposition (the Eight Hon. J. G. Coates), the Leader of the Labour Party (Mr. H. E. Holland), members of Parliament, and representatives of local bodies were present. ■ Many in the congregation were devoutly kneeling, offering prayers for the soul of the dead leader. The Bishop of Dunedin, the Eight Rev. Dr. Whyte, was tho celebrant of the Mass, and delivered a panegyric. "We are assembled this morning around the mortal remains of r great statesman and an earnest Christian," said Bishop Whyte. "We are here to pray for the immortal part of him— his soul —which has already appeared before the judgment seat of its Creator. The mortal part will eventually put on immortality, in the words of St. Paul, and the corruptible will put on inoorruptiou. Prayers alone, especially Holy Mass, will avail him now. Praise will be of no benefit to him, but it may help and encourage others to imitate his noble example. CHORUS OF PRAISE. "During the past few days one harmonious chorus of praise has sounded throughout the Dominion. Maori and pakeha, pressmen and politicians, civil and military and church authorities, all have lamented the loss sustained by our young cotnrtry through tho death of its ienowned citizen. All liavo lauded his -ability, his integrity, his courtesy. At the council chambers of the Empire his opinions were listened to with atten-, tioa, and New Zealand acquired through ! him fame out of all proportion to the uiae and population of the country. In progressive—nay, daring—legislation, ■which also contributed to the fame of this country, Sir Joseph Ward took a •cnipieiioii? part. It is no wonder,