The Late Dean Rolland-Continued

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 30, 23 July 1903, Page 15

The Late Dean Rolland -Continued

A Man of God. lie realised the priest in himself. His fellow-priests Knew how wrapt he was in prayer before he celebrated the great Saenhce ; they knew him, they had he&rd him, they saw how faithful he had bepn, how kind and fatherly to ihose who appioached him as God's minister for forL^eness, how he rebuked an act of thoughtless youth, how he listened sympathetically to the appeals of the aged and aflhcted, and how, although great sums of money passed through his hands, none remained with him He died comparatively poor ; the food and other mattcis he those were poor, and his ecclesiastical supenois had to command him to build a presbytery. Yes, he was a man of God, and a man of the people; he was a patriot, not only from a national and geographical standpoint, but he was a patriot where God had phui'd him, in this fair Colony of ours The Bishop iliu-.tiati\e of his assertion, heie lead an extract from Colonel Gudgeon's book, 'The Heroes of New Zealand.' \nd now they "\\eie about to commit his remains to ti.c-u List lesting place they would miss him, they would l.'iss his genial, benign snnle, e\tn those who are not of the household ol faith, and his thai liable deeds would not soon be loi gotten He is dead, jet, would he (the Bishop i presume to say so, though dead, his soul still To-day foi him, to muriow for them. And l iiat \\,b the 1 lesson— then time must suielj come, no power on ejith could fiustiate it, put it away, and it beluned Ihem to be leady, for 'at what houi ye think not, the Sun of Man cometh ' In conclusion, his Lordship, in an eloquent pcioiation, uiged his beams to oi ay foi the departed Dean. Slay his soul rest in peace ; denial ust gne to him 0 Loid ' Let peipelual terres<ii.il light shine upon him, and may the soul of Father Holland and those of all the faithlul departed rest in peace Vmcn The Funeral. The absolution of the catafalque was pronounced by Bishop Giimes, and the choral portion by the assistant I'iiests The iuneral procession then fonncd and proceeded to the New Cemetery in the following order : Band, \ olunteeis, hearse, the late Dean's horse, coffin borne on the shoulders of the members of the Hibernian Society, who lulUlled the duty of lo\e during Ihe whole of the long journey of three miles to the gra\e, pallbearers, Literal v, Debating, and Athletic Society, Children of Maiy, Sodality of the Holy Angels, general public (on foot), Bishop and clergy (in vehicles), general public (in \ eludes or mounted). At the graveside the Bishop officiated, and with pnests sang the burial service. The volunteers then gathered in line and fired three volleys, after which the bugler blew ' The last post,' thus terminating the day's mournful proceedings — R IP.