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I),, BISHOP OP ST. JOH3Sr, N. B. " Let us praise men of renotvn and our fathers in fheir generation" — (Ecclesiasticus, c. xliv.) PUB LIS ST. JOHN, N. B., HD BY T. W. FREEMAN PHINTING OFFIC 1868. ANGLIN. i i FUNERAL ORATION. •;Lc. us praise .en ^ ^^^^^^^^^^onr J.^.. i„ «.. gen.ration..^^ Ix the varied coarse of my humble mmistry, the Funeral Oration of my venerated iHend and father whose happy memory we hallow to day, is the task for which I feel myself most incompetent and unsuited. To teU the bare truth of his virtue, as a Christian, a Priest, a Prelate-to go through the lustory of his chequered life, his labours and merits in the cause of God-ro give a faithful pictiu-e of all that he ha, achieved for Catholicity in this City and Diocess. and throuc^h- out these lower Provinces of British America, would be'to state what is perfectly familiar to you and to all who knew him ; but yet what would appear overstrained panegyric to those who did not. My own connexion with him too-the con- iidential and intimate relations that subsisted between us for so long a time, embracing as it does a period of eighteen years, instead. of diminishing ratlcr adds to the embarrass- :ncnt. In whatever aspect it may be viewed a difficulty pre- «onts Itself. In the statement of facts, in the reeapitulation of the leading events of his life, there is nothing of novelty for yuu while m my review of them it is difficult to expect that I can be self-possessed or strictly impartial. You are assembled here to day to perform a duty which you owe to the l-ving as weH as to the honoured and illustrious .load, who I believe at this moment is far away beyond the range of any thing that human assistance can do for him You are here to-day to seal by your presence your unswerving be- ia-f m that faith " once delivered to the saints," that hallowed practice handed down from eariicst antiquity of offering '« prav- .rs and sacrifices" even for those who die in the cause of Gael \ou are hcrcr to-day to pay a tribute of strict justice as wcU a2 as of piety and religion to one who for so many years Was responsible for your souls, and who at the moment of his death had not only to account for himself but for each and every one of you as the flock entrusted to his pastoral solicitude. You arc here to-day to attest your gratitude and your undying af- fection to one who loved you so well — who loved you as only the Catholic Shepherd of the true fold of Christ loveth his lit- tle ones ; who bore all things, hoped all things, and endured all things for your sake ; and who, like St. Paul, would gladly be anathema all his life in order to win and secure you for that heavenly fold above. You are here to day not only as Chris- tians to remember and pray for your Prelates and those whom God placed over you, but you arc in an especial way called on to manifest your preferential esteem and gratitude to the man who raised you up — to the man who brought peace and order and harmony and gospel light and education where it was needed, as most of you and I well knoAV. You are here to-day to give prac- tical proof of your belief in the communion of saints, and to proclaim to the world that even death itself does not sunder us, nor our hearts yearnings from those we love. Though death has struck down your lamented Archbishop as it were before his time, and torn him momentarily from your view, yet in point of fact he is not dead ; he was only fatigued and worn out with his labours ; God said it wf^s enough and gave him sweet repose. His body is now at rest ; it only slumbcreth in his honoured grave until the Archangel's trumpet shall sum- mon both him and us, and- then my humble conviction is that we shall see him again as we knew him here, but crowned with that more precious mitre whercAvith Jesus himself shall encir- cle his brow as the insigne of his more extensive rule, and of his everlasting victory. It is to perform this sacred and imperative duty that you are assembled here to-day, and I know I am but the faithful interpreter of your feelings in stating that it is a duty which you will all conscientiously and cheerfully perform, for it is a duty of faith, a duty of love, a duty of gratitude. As ho •was fond of you, and faithful to you, and devoted to you to the end, so be it said to your honour that you have been faith- ful to him, and devoted and loyal to him in life and in death. You need but be reminded, therefore, of a duty which is emi- ncntly honoxirablo to God, and meritoriows for yourselves, an^ which by possibility may yet be of relief and comfort to him, if he be still before the bar of Divine Justice ; while under any circumstances it Avill be always, a grateful tribute of respect to liis long enduring memory. 1 should be glad, if it were possible, to compress within the limits of a Funeral Oration, not a complete Biography, but such a comprehensive and accurate sketch as would do bare justice to the memory of the departed. But with the scanty materials on hand, and the little time at my disposal amid the many cares of my office, I have but too much reason to fear that I can neither be just to him, nor give you or the public that amount of information which you have a right tO' expect. Without any promise, therefore, I must content myself by briefly referring to the marked epochs and the leading events of his life, which, through the Catholic Press of Ireland and the United States, are already moste or less before tiie public. My dear friend and father, as you are aware, wa» born in the City of W^aterford, in Ireland, in the month of November, 1804. His life, as known to us, began in school. In his early progress in knowledge, in the unprecedented success that marked his first years, in the many dawning virtues for which he was so soon distinguished, we have evidences- of the spiritualised nature and heavenly dispositions with which; God blessed him, and of the parental care expended in the formation of his character and the training up of his first years. I have more than once heard from his companions in those days that before the age of ten his great facility in learnings his reten- tian of memory and his entire devotion to study were such as were never surpassed in the Catholic College of his native City. At that early period he won for himself a position which, in- stead of losing, ho ever afterwards improved, until the last day of his scholastic curriculum. Year after year, every suc- cessive examination gave new proof of the wonderful progress lie was making, and of the ever widening distance between him and his competitors. At the early age of fifteen, his strong good sense and amiability of temper, coupled with undoubted intellectual merit, so raised hiiu up among his class-mates that he was regarded as an oracle and a refuge in every diffi- culty, rather than in the light of a more companion. That 6 unconsowus mastery of intellectual power, blcnd.d witli true and unassuming worth marked every step of his career till death. Nothing in liig whole character made a deeper impression on those who knew him, or more quickly attracted the attention of the stranger, than the easy and silken manner in which he was drawn, as if imperceptibly, into his views on every subjct. and the growing feeling within him that he was m the presence of a man of expansive intellect, and of enlarged and profound views on almost every subject. In him there was neither affectation, nor glitter, nor attempt at effect; there was nothing tawdry, or far-fetched, or over- stramed; there was n(^ wish to overawe, or make you feel a sense of your own inferiority ; no, with him, all was soUd and simple and plain and to the purpose. With ; an amount of learning that seldom fell to the lot of any one man. with a brilliant fancy and a brain well stored , with all the imagery of a poetic nature, he seldom resorted j cither m his public or private speaking to rhetorical flourish. W hat he said was classically correct and beautiful ; but the crowning virtue of all was its lucid and comprehensive sim- plicity, and Its entire adaptation to the understanding of those for whom it was intended. A spontaneous overflow of thought, a ready wit, a quickness of perception equal to every emer- gency, and then a natural outpouring of expression, with all ' the vigour and ease of a man who was thorough master of his subject ; in a word the power of illustration and of condens- ing, the power of saying much, and saying it well, and in a few words, are qualities universally accorded to him, and for which he began to be distinguished at the early period to which I now refer. While yet a theological student, in his alma mater he gave unmistakable evidences to the world that he possessed all those qualities in an eminent degree. The first literary efforts of his pen were in favour of persecuted Religion and Father- land, during the memorable Election of Waterford in the year 1826, and well and nobly did he perform his duty. It was at a moment when, after centuries of proscription and penal laws, the destinies of Catholic Ireland were still equipoised in the balance, trembling as it were, and undecided between dawmng liberty on the one side, and protracted serfdom on the other. It was during this uncortain twilight, thi« critical period of our history, that this young Levite— this newly en- listed soldier of Christ, like another David, as ytet a stripling, and without arms, rushed to do battle against all odds with the giant enemy of his country and religion. For eight or tea successive days he wielded his pen (the weapon which God evidently placed in his hands for that purpose) with such vigour that he literally overwhelmed with shame those to whose discomfitaro "he had so pow«rftilly contributed, while ho won for himself the plaudits and adiriration "of his fellow-citi- zfcns and countrymen, and an honourable fame that 'followed him through life. With the design (as he more than once told me) of entering the Sacred Ministry untrammelled by any family or earthly consideration, he applied for his Exeat, and with the reluttant consent of his Ecclesiastical Superior, be- came dilated to the Archdiocess of Dublin, where he was ordained Priest in the year 1828. Detachment from the morbid affections of kindred and of eVery woridly object that oould distract him in the great business of his life, was a virtue which lie prized and diligently cultrvated till death. To give the history of his career, and of his unceasing labours for literature and religion in the Archdiocess of Dub- Ihi for a period of over fourteen years, is more than I will attempt. Every one acquainted with the Ecclesiastical affairs of Ireland at that time, may well remember l!hat there was no great -public question connected with Catholicity, in whitih he did not take a distinguished -part. Und^r one name or another the traces of his aWe and prolific p. v ere dearly dis- cernible in all the controversies that were held on Ca;tholic subjects, and in every part of Ireland. His many and brilliant letters published during the agitation about the establishment Of National Schools are well known. Besides the harassing duties of a Curacy in a country where the number of Priests, as contrasted with that of the people, is utteriy disprOportioned, it was a subject of astonishment to me how he found time for rtiose numeroua contributions to Catholic literature and piety that met your eye at every Catholic Book Store. During that period, to my own knowledge, he had not an unoccupied day, not a single hour, in which 'he was not doing good and valiant service ia the cause of God. He was not only preaching in a season and out of season, and visiting the sick of a populouK pansh, and performing all the otlicr arduous duties of tlu; Irish Priest, but by a mysterious and singular combination, ho was eminently an interior and thinking nvan. Judging from tho amount of work performed, he seemed to be all his 11 f. with either book or pen b hand, labouring for the same glo- nous purpose. No one could tell tho amount of his contribu^ tions to tho Catholic Periodicals of tho day, nor all tho books of piety and devotion ho had either written himself, or twns> lated, or revised and edited in ojw form or the other, and always under the humblo and unassuaoing title of " A Catholic Priest." This is but a rapid and very imperfect sketch ©f Father Walsh's literary and clerical lubouri* for fourteen years iu Dublin. During that period he served in three parishes, each of which he left at the command of his Ecclesiastical Superior and always amid the tears and wailings of a bereaved and adoring multitude. It seldom fell to the lot of any Priest even of an Irish Priest, to have reeeived so many substantial tokens of the appreciation of a whole peoiJe. Their prayers and blessings, like their plaudits, fallowed hiin from parish to parish. Like his Divine Prototype, he was ever advancing in grace and wsdom before God, and growing in character among successive thousands, as he was becoming more generally known. Little as was the influence of his position, and small the sphere in which he moved, ye* his plastic hand was ever busy, not only in removing the rubbish of everything that was a scandal or an eye-sore to Religion, but also in building up solid and enduring monuments wliich tell to this day "that Father Walsh was there. Confraternities and Sodalities of the Sacred Heart, reunions of ladies for visiting the sick poor, and Benefit and Temperance societies, numbering many thou- sands, own him as their founder, and aH at a moment wlien sucli associations Avere as yet little known in Ireland. In his com- prehensive zeal, his attention was also directed to the oral controversies between Catholie aad Protestant which at that time were raging in several parts of England. On one occa- sion when a public challenge ^vm given to the Catholics of that country. Father Walsh was one of those who accepted, and stood forth far several days in Cheltea^^-ni, before a Protes^t 9 .■iudience> and in tho stroivghold of Protostuntism itself, as the- uncompromising Champion of the Cutholic Religion. He spoko for several hours each day, and with telling effect, against Col. (iordon, of anti-Catholie notoriety, and the infuriated men al- lied with him for the piu-pose of decrying the " one faith." The prevalent disorders of Hibbon and other secret societies in those (lays, became also the object of his solicitude. They were so porseveringly an4 so effectually assailed by him, that in con- nection with all his previous merits he won for himself the proudest compliment evergpaid to a priest, and that was from the lips of Danial O'Connell, (the great^.it Catholic layman of the Church, since the days of Charlemagne) who publicly de- clared^ him to bo the purest and the best of Ireland's priesthood. While he was ever endeared to the widow and the orphan, and the poor and the youth, to whom he was always a provident and indefatigable father ; while, at the risk of his popularity., he was always prominent in crushing out the spirit of faction and party from the laud, he was also the consistent and un- compromising champion of the religious and political rights of the people, at every phase of his career. There Avere few respectable families in the Mbtropolis of Ireland, or in its vicinity, to whom the fame of his tranecend- ant merits had not become mor9 or less familiaxu Few men ever made a wider circle of warm and enthusiastic friends, and among every class and grade of society. For this, unlike other men, he was not indebted to the accident of noble birth or lofty lineage, or the hap-haaard and adventitious aid of any Avorldly consideration. No ; like another Jeremy or a John, the Baptist, God evidently destined hinn from birth for a lofty position in life. He carved him out as a most fitting instru-. ment for the execution, of his mighty and merciful designs. His was to have been an eminently successful career ; God. gave him all the qualities of head and heart that were needed ; he cultivated them to the utmost of his ability. He corres- ponded with his master's designs, and this is the secret, and the only secret of his success. Though it might be urged that his position in ^o respectable a place as Kingston, and so near Dublin, might have 'pntributed more or less to that success ; yet of hi,T indeed. Ether great men, it can be truly said that hs avitt' and mnrc. r»ain'''?-TKisition ; but position never did, and 10 ivcver could have made him. Position was but aTiecessaTy outlet for thAt hiddeh and golden mine within. Position was but the stage on which he played a distinguished and suc- cessful part, among thousands who made their first appearance, with more advantages, but yet who lived and died therein obscurity. It was not without reason, therefore, that Father "VValsh, while yet an humble Irish Curate, occupied so large a space in public esteem. It was not without reason he so at- tracted the notice and won the admiration of his Ecclesiasti- cal Superiors, as to be selected among the Priests of Ireland, at the age of thirty-four, as most competent and worthy for the faoneurable and important position of Bishop of Calcutta. It was not without reason that he was always on terms of confi- dential intercourse with Dactor Murray, the holiest and most venerable of Ireland's Bishops, and that amid so lar^e a body of clergy.Tien ho received so many marks of his prefer- ential esteem. I have seen myself his letter announcing Dr. Walsh's appointment to Jf«va Scotia, in which he regrets the loss the Archdiocess weuld sustain by his departure, and states at the same time that his name was for several years on the honorary rolls of Propaganda, to fill the first vacancy tliat- might occur. After having refused ihe Bishopric of Calcutta, and a parish in the Atchdiocess of Dublin, he acted consistently to the last, and refused also his nomination to Nova Scotia, in which he would have persisted, if the painful conviction were not at length forced on him that God had spoken, and for him that Was all sufficient. Like another Peter, no sooner did God say " Come after me," than he followed forthwith. Country, family, friends, social endearments such as few ever left behind them, national sympathies, old faces, long cherished associa- tions, and kindred ties of every description, were given up at the first command of duty. God spoke, and his servant heard and obeyed. At the mature age of thirty-eight, with habits and sympathies already formed in a manner never to be ^ivcn up ; with the deep conviction in his mind that the climate of Nova Scotia would be^ fatal to hisi already over- worked and enfeebled constitution ; ""-^-'^ Peter, at the voice of his, Divine Master, he hesitate " ^'''^° "^^^x-^snt but left "all things;" for in leaving irA> before a Pro tt.»^ j^^ vr ^" ags indeed, and in crossing the Atlantic he followed Jesurnj Him crucified, and for the simple purpose of preach- ^"n "Gospel and the saving truths of salvation to you, his belovqogij And, Oh ! who that remembers all the circum- stancesjjj painful associations of his departure from Ire- land, anjg Qot deeply impressed with the truth of what I «ay . \\ jg j^ jjj^|. gj^^ j^jjjj receive so many tokens of thp; love of a'^oig people; who is it that assisted at the several reunions \tjg jjg ^^g j^^j g^J^^ honoured by the great and influential i the land ; who heard ,6he many addresses that were being ^Qj-gd in upon him at every side ; Ijut, above al!, who heard as heard the moans and shrieks of be- ed and disconsolate tiusands, as they thronged the shores ac his last leave-taking, seining their eyes after the parting shadow of the steamship, i^ pouring out the blessings of their whole being on him w, was so long the idol of their affections ; who is it that rciembers these scenes of sixteen years ago, and does not feel tat Dr. Walsh's separation from his native land was a sacrificcpure and unalloyed for religion and for urod . Oh, well dox remember his real sentiments on this subject when I had he honour of aicompanying him on his first voyage across thevtlantic. Well do I remember his clear insight into the natur of the exchange he was making, and the calm and resigned nmner in which he spoke of the trials and difficulties and the btter chalice yet before him. For reasons easily undegtood, it is inexpedient that I should go into a minute detail o\ his career, his trials, and his suc- cess since his advent in tUs country. His trials I will dis- miss by simply remarking w^t most of you well know, that there is not perhaps another Bishop in the Church at the present day who had to endure so much in a long life as he had to brave during the first years of his administration in Nova Scotia. Had he but to preach the Gospel and govern the Diocess and perform the ordinary duties and functions of :i Bishop, his would have been an easy achievement ; for he yielded to few men in the thorough knowledge of his duties, and to no one in his unflinching determination to peifoim them to the last letter. But his, as you well know, was a task very Jifferent indeed. He had not only to build up, but what is worse and more painful, he had to pull down, and it is only they M-ho over .xperienced the difficulties of an admimstior. that can feol the full import and meaning of what I sa^Hls were to be levelled, and vaUies were to be filled ", and nroaked ways ^verc to Ls made straight, and rough wa plain. A people full of faith and of Irish enthusiasm had ^ many wants to be provided for in their new home. Their -ws were to be enlarged, their sympathies expanded and carolled, a iioly and honoiyrable ambition was either to be crpcd within them or quickened into action. A whole body opriest^wa* to be raised up to meet the crying Avtints of a ng (terelict people. Churches were to be built in every par^f the coun- try ; schools and religious establishments ^v^re toe introduced, and Catholic worship carried out in all the spndour of the older countries in Europe. In a word, a people a^et unformed, a iieterogenous mass of different races, having 'o sympathy in common but that of the one faith, were to be Tonghfr together, and organised and made conscious of their iae positiori in the country,of their inalienable rights o- the onf*de, and the means- of attaining them on the other ; and seed teH you that it was I^r. Walsh alone who, by his life-inspirig genius, and a zeal and energy which had no limits, succeaed in accomplishing all this Avithin d single lifetime, nay wMxk a few years, and before the eyes oi those wha now h^ me. It was he who raised up Halifax to the successive- rfgnities of a Bishopric and an Archbishopric ; it was- thragh him, and his great influence at Home, that Halifax beame first known to the- Cathotie world on both sides of the ..tlantic ; it was during his. administration that it became as if the heart of the surround- ing provinces, and that the life pule which beat so warmly and vigorously hero, sent a ©orrcspoiding throb to the remotest ends of Cape Breton, Prince Edvard's Island and New Bruns- wick. The prestige of his grmt name became a tower of strength fox us throughout the lower British Provinces ; for '.vhcro is the Protestant, friend or foe, who did not do homage to his. character .> where is the Bishop or Priest or Ca- tholic Layman, who did not feel a secret pride in having such a man as the representative and champion of car creed ? where IS the man among thousands, upon whom the mantle of his genius and his many virtues can fall, and who will be in every way worthy the lofty position of which he was the shining 13 ornament alid the key stone * To be sure, that God who selected Wmble fishermen as h^s apostles and the contemptible and ignoble things of the world to Confound the strong ; that God NVho, out of the stones on the highway couUl raise children to Abraham, may luring him if He will j but humanly speak- ing, who is there among us that can hopefully look forward to the avenir for any such contingency. Before I conclude this last portion of his interesting and eventful life, there is one incident more to which I must briefly refer, and Which for. the honour of Ireland, as well as of Hali- fax, I think ought not to be omitted on an oceasiort like the present. I allude to the honourable and distinguished part taken by him in the memorable controversy held in the Palace of the Vatican, in Rome, immediately before the definition of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Mother of God. In further proof, if proof were needed, of his varied and pro- found learning, and that conscious power within which was sure to be evoked whenever the occasion presented itself ; at a moment whon two hundred of the most distinguished scho- lars of Christendom, and the united wisdom of the Churcli, met face to face Dr* Walsh was one of those very few Prelates who took a leading part in that discussion, whicli Jilust for evermore form one of the most brilliant pages in the history of the Church. In the Vatican at Rome, as in Ire* land, and m the pulpite of Nova Scotia he taxed his powerful mind to the utmost in sifting every objection and bringing every imaginable argument to bear in favour of the Immacu- late Conception of her whom he loved as a mother during his whole life, and whose name and praises were still lingering upon his purpled and quivering lips as they were being closed in death, and only one moment as it were before his pure and beauteous soul was presented at the tribunal of her Divine Son. ' Consummatus in htevi expletitt tcmpora muUa. (Wis. c. 4.) (" Being made perfect in a short space he fulfilled a long time.") His end likte his beginning Was the work of God in behalf -^ — '- -"0„_n -ervantj a ttiftrvcl an« suiiiCatiOu to all who ■wit* blessed it. In his death there wai# nothing whatever of the worldling. There was neither surprise nor regret at being prematurely taken away; there was no unti el y remorse for u the past, no mi8gi^^ngs for the future ; there was nothing hur- ried, or unforseen', or unprovided for. No, on on the contrary, every thing was there that thp Christian heart could yearn for. Instead of terror or uneasiness there was a majesty, an air of calm and dignified composure that told of the well spent life and the well regulated interior, and that blessed " peace of God that surpasseth all understanding," and which only the friends of God ean either feel or appreciate-. That giant mind whicli was always too strong for the frail tenement in- which it was held continued unimpaired to the last. The lampof rea- son within never burned more brilliantly than at the last mo- ment—as he was- about to wing his way to God. As the mark of final perseverance, the crowning-act of God's love ho received in the full possession of his faculties, and with a faith and fervour worthy of an apostle all the last consoling rights of his religion, and over and over the blessed Eucharist on which, he had written so much, and so well, and to which he was so reverentially devoted through life. It is not without reason, therefore, we say of Dr. Walsh what in the Holy Scriptures is said of the glorious and patri- archal men of olden time. " Being made perfect in a short space, he fulfilled a long time." He began well, he continued well, and as the grandest consummation of all he ended* as such a man ought to have ended, a» the well tried servant and the faithf.i Priest of God. He died on the 11th of last month, in the nudst of a sorrowing people, surrounded by his Priests, and every consolation that religion could aflford : and if he be not at this moment in that blessed realm for which he laboured so incessaatly ialife, then the* purest and the best of us have reason to tremble, and it becomee our double duty to sanctify ourselves, and to continue to pray,.as -vto do, now that God may give hhn everlasting peace. In the impartial survey of the facts already adduced, and of the whole career of Dr, "Walsh it beconres my duty before concluding to review them impartially to do his memory all the justice I can without, at the same time^ infringing in any manner on the sacred bouadary of truth. Without any affeeted humility, I only regret for his sake that the task (as I vainly hoped) has not fallen into the hands of the man most competent at this side of the Atlantic to do it justice, and that is his M IS earnest and. sincere friend till death, the distinguished Arch-- bishop of. New York. However, as regret is now unavailing, I. must pay the sacred debt which I awe to the utmost of my humble ability. Among the many noble and endearing qualities of Dr. Walsh there are some which stand out in bold relief, which,, as a guide to his successor, and a consolation to his priests,. and to you, and to his many admiring friends in Ireland, deserve especial mention before I conclude. Dr. Walsh, as a thorough gentleman, a varied and accom- plished scholar, had few equals, and not one superior that I have had the honour of being acquainted with. His memory was prodigious, his industry, his conscientious traffic of time such as I believe was rarely if ever surpassed. Besides the punc- tual performance of all the duties of his administration, I have known him for years to have devoted from eight to ten hours a day to study, I am.yet to be convinced that he spent a use- less or idle day from the hour of his consecration. With a thorough and critical knowledge of four or five languages, there was little in ancient or modern literature, sacred or profane, which he had not seen, and what is more with which he was not perfectly familiar. But the grandest trait in his whole cha- racter is yet to be presented. His intellectual labours, great and incessant as they were, unlike those of other grea/t men, were made always ancillary and subservient to a grander and loftier purpose, which with him culminated above all, and that is the glory of God, and the beautifying and the aggrandisement of that Church on earth, which like its divine founder, he wish- ed to see " without spot or wrinkle or any such thing." Like another David, " the zeal of God's house hath eaten him up." In his esteem, neither gold nor silver, nor precious stones, nor a life's labour were too much for the beauty of thafchouse and the splendour of Catholic worship carried out as he wished it in all the decorum and regularity of its minute&t details. I verily l)elieve that the glory of God and the further extension of the Catholic empire of Jesus over men's souk, was the breath by which he lived and the ordinary life spring of his every action. Few men were stronger or more immoveable in their earthly fiiendship. He made many friends in his time, and I am not as yet aware, that he lost one of the number who deserved that 16 Viame. Jn all his relations with th6 world and hid fellow men, stern principle, unbending and unaccommodating as it is, Was the life rule by which he was guided. He clung to his priAciples and to his friends with a tenacity that never gave in, and what is true of the warmth and the steadfastness t)f his earthly attachments, is equally characteristic of his love for God and his unsleeping zeal to promote his honour and glory by every means in his power. Like every high priest, with the sole exception of the Ohe who was sinless, he too was " sur- voubJcd with his infirmities," but true as the needle to the Norlh.amid sin and imperfection, and trial ahd difficulty, in sick- iiess as in health, in youth as in old age, in his minutest as well as m his most important actions, the glory of God and the love of souls, and the welfare of Christ's Church, were the Al- pha and the Omega of ail his aspirations. The singular and clock-like regularity of the habits of his whole life, his scrupu- lous punctuality in reciting the Divine office at the appointed hour of each day without the delay or the hesitancy of a sin- gle moment, his invariable method of makitag his daily medi- tation and visiting the blessed Sacrament, ahd thus praying to Ood, morning, noon and night— in a word, the diligent and ascetical cultivation of the interior, blended with an outward Vigour of administration rarely surpassed, were all quickened and regulated by that ever vivifying principle within him of a Whole-souled love for God. As a final illustration of his sin- gle mindedness and Of his entire absorption in this leading idea and ruling principle of his whole life, I will quote a few lines from the confidential and touching letter that accompanied his Will. (Here a portion of a letter was read in which he declares that the promotion of God's glory was the happiness ofhis whole life.) In thes3 few lines you have a perfect epitome of his whole life and character. They were written in the full possession of his faculties in the face of death, and to one perhaps better acquainted with him than any other man living. By virtue o*f that inexorable law to which both the good and wicked are equally subject, a mighty oak tree has fallen— a great light is extinguished among us. Your venerable father and Archbi- shop is dead ; but his soul liveth to God, his name and his fjreat character, his many and brilliant virtues, his preachings 17 and labours arc still extant. They are still a great pal- pable and hving reality in your midst, and will live on as long as a remnant of Catholicity will be left on the land. What ho people of Corinth were to St. Paul, you are to Dr. Walsh, ha IS his hvxng Epistle, his eertifieate of eharaeter, and his host letter of recommendation to God and to men Treasure up, therefore, his sainted me nory ; often bring to mxnd the sacred maxims and the glorious Gospel truths which tu^ f n f r ''*''• '^^^^'^^'^ ^" ^^^ ^^f« ' ™itate his vir- nd L tt 1 I '""' P""'^ of his character to your children and to the little ones who are to succeed you. Pray that his successor may be worthy his genius, his ma'ny virtues nd h unbounded zeal in your regard. Lest perchaLe h ^o^f s': may be yet before the justice bar of that God at whse dread presence the mountains themselves melt away and the It ' :::;2cf^rd;br™!-^--^-- alwa^agratcMtributelhis^^^lir^--- and bless you in urn, and he will join Jesus and the Ho ly Spt •It and the mynad army of God'.s saints in "ineffable groan- mgs' for your welfore. Like the seven first Bishops ofTsh Minor, whom St^John in the Apocalypse calls the "An^e s" o their respective Diocesses, so Dr. Walsh as tho fiv«.f f uJ u of Halifax, will be for ever more 1..?? ^^'f ^^'^hbishop Diocess and people ho willTo "^ ^"°'^ °^ '^^' u 1,- T- • VT ' " ^^ ^^" standing at the eolden alter which is before the throne of God, offering up you™ ers and his own that ho in.,-,- ,,„.. i ^ ^ ^ ^' ..,. .nd bo ,„uted Witt hi„rfn (hathc ' „1 f T'^ '■"*°'°" .1.0 ev..a,«n, ShepHord, and tt ^t /t; .L^^ " »ro neyc- ogain to bo soparalcd." Amen '