their souls and I look after their

DRAMATIC FAREWELL

nat egg-nog incident reminds me of
or that illustrates Father Pat’s powers
jurance as well as the little attention
id to differences in creed. There was,
time, in Rossland, another fine type
-son, the Rev. Mr. Wallace, who had
from St. Giles’ Cathedral in Edin-
_ He was a Presbyterian of the Scot-
Yhurch and used that service. He had
cepted a call to a church in New
wick and was leaving Rossland. He
father Pat were great friends. Upon
'e of his departure his flock wanted to
him a farewell gathering and make a
station and, as their church was small,
+ Pat invited them to hold it in his
of worship. The offer was accepted.
+ Pat had an urgent request to go to
d Forks just before the event. A num-
f the other denominations went to the
ell gathering. It was a terrible winter
ing and a Chinook wind had taken
a lot of the snow. The scene was one
solation. The main road through Ross-
was knee-deep in slush and the stage
waiting to take Wallace away. But he
ted to leave because Father Pat had
ised to be back in time to say farewell
give him a hand-grip. The driver of
age was becoming impatient but Wall-
till lingered and held the stage up.
hen, down the middle of the road, and
ically wading, came Father Pat, wav-
iis arms and shouting to the driver
ait. He had travelled all the previous
and all that night on foot, a distance
rer 60 miles, in a storm and over two
)-foot summits, in order to say good-bye
s friend, a physical feat of endurance
h only the hardiest could have accomp-
ike

-my request Mr. Whiteside recalled
al instances of Father Pat’s athletic
ess. “On one occasion,” he said, “I
mber he was passing a saloon and went
the bunkhouse at the back where he
1 several bohunks wrestling. He asked
if they could let up for an hour and
in at his church where they were going
ive a service. He often did that sort
ing. However, they thought they would
a spectacle of him and said they would
- would ‘take a fall’ with them first,
- thinking that he would accept the
ition, but he did. One of the men
d at him to get a grip and Father Pat,
| by the impetus of the man’s rush,
nt him and threw him over his
der.

J. A. WADE
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“Upon another occasion he was passing
some men outside a saloon practising hop,
skip and jump. He asked them, too, to come
to church and they declined. “Then Ill give
you something to occupy your time,’ he
said, and he made a hop, skip and jump
which they spent all the morning trying to
equal. This sort of thing made him popular
even with the roughest.

“Another instance that comes to mind
was one day when he was riding from
Grand Forks to Midway. Passing, on his
cayuse, a saloon in Midway, he saw a
powerfully-built loafer in front. As he
passed, the man, who was not exactly sober
and who evidently knew that he was a
parson, hurled some vile abuse at him.
Father Pat did not pay the slightest atten-
tion as he rode on. Next day he was riding
back past the same saloon and the same
man was there and again insulted him.

“Father Pat”

Slowly dismounting from his horse and
throwing the reins over the animal’s neck
he went up to the man and said very quietly
‘Yesterday I was on my Master’s business;
today I am on my own, and then proceeded
to give him a most ungodly licking. Then
he went into the saloon and paid for a
drink for his victim, telling him to be more
respectful to the cloth. He himself was not
a teetotaler.

Here Mr. Whiteside interpolated, “But
I don’t want to give the impression that
Father Pat was in the remotest sense a bully.
He used, but he never abused, his strength.
Actually, he was a very gentle man in dis-
position and he had a very magnetic person-
ality.As an instance of this I may mention
that one day I was standing before my
office in Greenwood when he came rambling
along. We had not met for some time and
I made a fuss of him. It was a summer
evening and I said, ‘We'll go some place
and get a crowd together; they will all
want to meet you again.’ He said, “Let’s

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