TRIBUTE DUE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXII, Issue 5, 31 May 1895, Page 19

TRIBUTE DUE.

Thkiie is one especially to whom, above all others, wo feel that a tribute of gratitude is fine from all those who revere the memory of Bishop Moran. We need not say that we refer to the Very Rev Father Lynch, Rector of St Joseph's Cathedral. K one of us have witnessed th-i filial love, the tender, watchful care, the constant attendance, given by Father Lynch to the Bishop during his long i lncss without being deeply touched by it. No one more than he deserves sympathy in the common loss that has befallen us. The bishop loved and trusted him from the first, and he was not mistaken. He recDgnised a true heart and safely relied upon it. To Father Lynch, therefore, we for our pait tender our most respectful thanks and sympathy, feeling assured that he will accept our tribute in the spirit in which it is offered.

Oub paper is la'e this week. Oar publication bas been retarded by a day. We offer no apology. Our subscriber! would reproach us bad we gone to press, as we must otherwise have done, on the day of Bishop Moran 'e burial.

Reference (says Monday's Daily Times) was made in many of the churchtß in and around the city yesterday to the death of Bishop Moran. At Knox Church the Rev Adam Begg leferred to the loss sustained by the Rocnan Catholic community by the death of their leader. At St Matthew's Church the " Dead Marsh " from Saul was played. At St Paul's Cathedral, the Dean, preaching at evensong, made sympathetic reference to the sad lobs the Roman communion had sustained in the death of their chief pastor, and the preacher expressed his conviction that all bodies of Christiana in the town joined him in acknowledging the loss that had befallen them, A t the conclusion of the service Chopin's " Funeral March " was played by Mr Taylor, the whole congregation standing.

We have received from Mr B. W. Dunne. George street, Dunedin, a cabinet photograph of the late Bishop of Danedia, and a mourning card in his memory. The photograph ib a remarkably good one. It is an extremely faithful likeness, and gives an expression of tea seen on the Bishop's face. The card is tastefully designed, and well executed. It also contains a photograph, but of a smaller size— and with a different expression — perhaps a rarer one than that often caught by the photographer. The Bishop looks amused, and as if about to make one of thoßO witty comments by which ha wa3 distinguished, We can recommend bota pictures to those who are desirous to have such a soavenir of Dr Moran, aa excillent and pleasing likenesses.

We publish elsewhere the winning numbers in the St Mary's school art union, Ghnetcbiirch.

Thb Right Rev Dr Wevill writes as follows to the Otago Daily Times. To the editor.— Sir,— l observe that the allusions made tj Bishop Moran last Sunday by other preachers have been noticed in y ur paper, but the fact that I paid my tribute of respect at 8t Paul's Cathedral in the morning has not been mentioned. Taking for my text the words of Chris*, " I must work the works of Him that sent Me while it is day.the night cometh when no man can work," 1 intended the whole sermon to be an enforcement of the lessons derived from such a life and death, and towards the end of my address I made a brief allusion both to the " laborious prelate " and the ' upright merchant,' the lateMrLeCren, who had recently been removed from among us. I should like to add that bsfore giving my lecture on the Monday evening I made further respectful allusion to Bisbop Mcran. I ask your admission of this litter, as I should be moat grieved to be thought disrespectful to one whom I highly honoured or to the communion he respreesnted among us.— l am, &c, S T DCNEDIN. May 29.