confroiited the enemies of their country, our 
 martyr 'stategman will livo la the remembrance 
 of mankind ; the memory ot hia death, en- 
 shrined in the annals of cveiy civilized people, 
 Trill stand forth an example, ever bright and 
 powerfully attractive, ofvirlue and/ortitude, not 
 to youth only, but also to maluresl manhood. 
 Wei! mav we enquiru what education did for 
 such a man. Whilst wc admire his great 
 abiliticg and extensive lei'r'iiLg, the suund 
 principle which guided iiis public life com- 
 mands still more the homage of our approval 
 and applause. To what c^ise or influence di<l 
 he owe this great endowment ? To nothing 
 else than his early training, to the anxious 
 care of an affectionate and accomplislied 
 mother. Genius was born witli him, indeed, 
 but nevertheless his mind might have been 
 narrowed and warped by unworthy prcjudi'je?, 
 contracted views which would have rondcred 
 unavailing all his intellectual power. If lie 
 was ever above such prejudices, if his mind 
 was always open to conviction and ready to 
 recei»re sound impressions, he was indebted 
 above all for these qualities to the teachings 
 of his truly chiistian mother. His filial 
 duty towards her was in proportioa to her 
 loving and well directed cave. His reverence 
 for her when grown to man's* estate, whilst it 
 proves the dulifulness of his early days, ac- 
 counts at the same time, for his strict adher- 
 ence to what he conceived to be principle and 
 duty in after lite. The taste for letters by 
 which he was so soon distiriguished, was in- 
 spired, we cannot doubf^ it, by the lessons 
 tanght him by his excellent mother. This 
 lady was not only generally well informed, 
 she also possessed remarkable knowledge .of 
 tlie poetry of her own land, no less than that 
 of other countries. She was skilled in music 
 and could thus impart, as Ave are well assured 
 that she did impart, to her tender charge— the 
 son who was destined to fill so bright a page 
 in the history of the New World, the legends 
 of Scotland as well as tliose of her native Ire- 
 laDd,in me'octious verse allied to the sweetest 
 power of BODg. No wonder if he loved such a 
 mother. No wonder if this, dutiful filial 
 affection was to him, as it could not fail to be, 
 the source of mauy blessings. No wonder if 
 it remained deeply graven in his inmost soul, 
 and was dearer to him even than lame itself. 
 
 "My motlier! at that holy name 
 Wi^in my bosom there's a gush 
 Of feeling which no timo can tamo, 
 A foelhtg which for years offamo 
 £ would not, oouldnot crush !" 
 
 Whilst yet a boy Thomas D'Arcy McGee 
 was thrown ir^to thp arena of public political 
 life, That his career at that enrly period of his 
 exigtefncc mw tree fr6'm error, few will now 
 maintain, That he was not hurried into 
 
 due to two very powerful causes, the sotind 
 principles imbibed in his tenderest 
 yeiirs, and Uio companionship of tiic 
 lato ^anlcl O'Connell. If we have 
 to liimeut that lie was borne away tor a time 
 on tlm tide of an ill-regulated enthusiasm, we 
 must bear in mind that tbat enthusiasm, like a 
 mighty current, swept over Europe, and tUrt 
 whilst ir< the continental nations it aimed at 
 the overthrow of all "existing institutions, in 
 Ireland, it only " nteuded with abuses, and by 
 accident merely, may it not be said? or the 
 force of untoward circumstances, came to be 
 iu coullict with coustituted authority. It 
 sought to remedy the crying evils which pre- 
 vailed, by throwing light into dark places, — 
 byeduealing a people who for cent'iries liad 
 been denied the blessiinf of education, — by 
 creating for fhoni a literature, and a national 
 literature. Need wo wonder if in tho sudden 
 blaze of noon-day splendour wliich no dawn 
 pieccdetl, men's vision was disturbed, and 
 they failed to see their way in the confusion 
 of thought and conflict of opinion, which was 
 necessarily eonecquent on the rapid and un- 
 expected awakening of a nation's mind from 
 the sleep of ages? As regarded one man, at 
 least, correctivej were at hand. Thos. D'Aicy 
 McGeo never could forget his early principlcri. 
 The good grain hivl fallen upon good and very 
 good soil. It could not fail to spring up aad 
 iu due time produce truit a hundred fold. The 
 lessons of the great O'Connell were as the 
 dews which freshen the good seed and f ivor 
 its growth. His peaceful labours had opened 
 for his people tbo doors of the constitution — 
 that constitution whi'.h, however much 
 abused for a time, had a fold in its vast mantle 
 for tho dowu-troaden and oppressed. To tlio 
 yoTjng, and ardent and inexperienced, his 
 wisely concei^^ed measures appeared to, bo in- 
 operative and unavailing. In their enthusiasm 
 for a future^ and not an ideal one, tot it is 
 now at Land, but which had a$ yet, toi iTo 
 realized, they forgot the past— they forgot 
 that by his slow, but sure moral means, he 
 had overthrown in a comparatively short time, 
 the gigantic fabric of iniquity which brute 
 force had consumed whole centuries in build- 
 ing up. Was the coterie or faction called 
 "Young Ireland" ever able to' accom- 
 plish anything like this? But there were 
 such odds against them. None greater, nor so 
 great as against O'.Connell. The difference was 
 in their weapons. The moral power which 
 O'Connell wielded was no less mighty than 
 thesword.of justice in the hands of the civil 
 ruler. Tue pby^sical iorce to which " Young 
 Ireland" had recourse without professing it, 
 was worse than useless; or if it had any use, it 
 was in this, that it showed ."that they wbotako 
 the sword, shall perish by tbo sword:" in other 
 wordsj thftt \h^y whpj i^ th<? i*cQ of » free oouif 
 
5 
 
 Btitution, the freest over yet known to tuan, 
 liopo to prove the jnstioo of their ciiiise by 
 blows and deeds of violence, must perish, the 
 victims oftheir own devices. This importir»t 
 truth which youtli, incixperieiiceii ardent, en- 
 thusiastic, could not discover, wiis nmoifestto 
 maturer yeaiB, and Thomas D'Ai y McOee, 
 inNtructed by the principles and 'xample of 
 O'CoOnell, enl'ghtened by experiei ce, Ruidi'd 
 by the promptings of his riper Jtid;;nent, nni- 
 niat^d and encourf»Rtd bv tlio inspirations of 
 bis superior genius, beheld and acknowle-lgcMl 
 the errors of his too early political career. But 
 he had not in reality, as yc t, comnienced any 
 Huch career. In the times to which referent*! 
 has been made, he was a m.'in of letters and a 
 journalist, and less a politician than his rolii- 
 tions with the "Yonng Ireland" clob, might 
 lead us to suppose. These relatioas were as the 
 friendships of childhood, and like them eph- 
 emeral. They passed away with his boyhood, 
 and all that remains of them is a faint and 
 perishing remembrance. His literary hibors of 
 the game period eojoy fis they deserve, a bet- 
 ter fate. They alono would be a lasting monu- 
 ment to his name.* The works of bis youth, 
 we are well assured, are read with interest 
 even now, by his fellow countrymen in Ire- 
 land, and they will long survive in the litera- 
 ture of his country. That could have been no 
 mediocre talent whicli attracted the notice 
 of O'Connell, and was induced by that great 
 man to devote itself (o his cause, — the cause 
 of reform in Ireland through momi and con- 
 stitutional means. Ihe friends of Mr. McGee, 
 in Canada, shewed an equally sound apprecia- 
 tion of his great abilities. They invited him 
 to take up his abode amongst them in the rich 
 and prosperous city of Montreal. He was not 
 long there, applying, as was i. , wont, to the 
 congenial labours of li^yrature and journalism, 
 when at the general election which took place 
 about a ycat after his arrivl, he was chosen 
 one of the three representatives of tiio city in 
 
 •The gigantic products ot nis short but 
 crenttul life, must be proof positive, even 
 to his enemies, of ceaseless in-dugtry, 
 and a marvellously sustained intellectual 
 cnlture, incompatiblo with serious faults 
 of any kind. The ten or eleven hundred lec- 
 tures delivered by him in twenty years, the 
 unnumbered pieces <f matchlefs eloquence 
 which he poured forth,— his immortal speeches 
 in and out of Parliament, — his voluminous 
 political writings, — and the many literary 
 works in prose and pootvy in his name, — and 
 lastly, the blasting shock of his hideous tak- 
 ing olf, before the blossoming of manhood! 
 Speak trumpet-tongutd foe the moderation 
 and the raany untold virlues of his whole lite." 
 — Archbishop of Ualifax^ funeral crcftion on\ the 
 
 the Canadian Parliament. .Now(I858) in re- 
 ality commenced his career as a politician bnd 
 stitesman. It has been alreiidy alluded to in 
 this disv,.»urKe. You all know how briliiant it 
 was and alas ! how biief ! Twiee in the Min- 
 istry, and since he left it, without anvriifferen- 
 00 Willi his colleagues, but (vjin the purest, 
 most patrio.ic, and most disinterested motives, 
 he was more than ever at the head of all at- 
 fciirs. From the first even before ho w.<s 
 elected to I'arllament, the consistent advocate 
 ot the Union of these Provinces, he was until 
 his latest brtath its ablest defender. More, 
 need it be said ? much more than any other 
 ho was the public man — the statesman of 
 Canad I. lie was «-epeatedly, habitually recofj- 
 nixsd as such. A truly mas?nilicent proof thisi 
 recognition was given only a te at days before 
 that on whieh he was called away so suddenly 
 and so nefariously from the country which 
 loved him and will long revere his memory. 
 The reckless, ungrateful and most criminal 
 hand whieh consigned him to an ui^timely 
 grave, struck at the heart of the Canadian peo- 
 ple, and all who do not hasten to repudiate ^dl 
 bympathy with th(! foul and tie ndisti deed, in- 
 cur their just contempt and undisguised hos- 
 tility quite as surely as the perpetrators of 
 such acts, together with their patrons, 
 abettors and accomplic( s, who aro Iho 
 enemies alike of God and man, daring- 
 ly and impiously place themselves un- 
 der the bann of the Church and the cTirco 
 of God. We mourn the loss of (Janaiia's ablest 
 statesman and most eloquent orator. lint Ihu 
 cruel and unexpected blow has also hurrltnl 
 from our sight and from our soticty, a deeply 
 road scholar, a pleasing essayist, a great his- 
 torian and a good poet. What varied learning 
 did he not bring to bear on the subjects which 
 he selected for the numerous lectures that he 
 so willingly undertook in the cause of charity' 
 and benevolence? How gracefully and with 
 what untiring energy, did he not; deliver 
 those lectures ? If any one thing more than 
 another be deserving of special notice in this 
 place and on this occasion, it is this, that all 
 iho efforts of his fascinating oratory tended to 
 extinguieih animosities, reconcile ditt'ertnces, 
 promote peace and good will among the 
 various classes and denominations of his f<;l- 
 low-countrymen of Canada. This alone would 
 entitle him, as it does entitle him, to the 
 prayers and benedictions of the Church. It 
 does more ; it gives him aright to the blessing 
 of God hiitiself. " Blessed *re the peace-ma kert, 
 for they shall he called the children of (Jodf 
 (Matt., 5, 9.) If for this caase the grosgest 
 ignorance — ignorance that no tongue of man 
 or angel ever can eniighten — assailed him 
 with reproach, endeavoured to crush hitn by 
 
 III ■ '■■ ' ' ' ' 
 
cal jnan^, and at length, when tlio cup of their 
 iniiiuity-was fliltd brim-full, nnd their roproba- 
 tiuii was complete, etruck him down in thu 
 dead of night, bia reward is bt-yond exprvs. 
 Kioii great, iu the Kingdom of God. JJlrtsed 
 are tluy who auffer persecnlion for Justicv take ; 
 for theirs is the Kingtiom of Heaven ! (id. ib. ; v. 
 10.) With what humiiity did hu not rpeak 
 of his grejit literary laliiurH? Not faithur 
 back than last St. Patrick'^ day, whe^n ho sat 
 an honored and a dtscrvedly houorod n^an in 
 the midst of the nio^t < niinent r«prc«entativn 
 men of thin Dominion, who bad axsembled at 
 the national banquet, as it may wt'll bu term- 
 t'd, in order to mark their appreciation of His 
 great abilities and HUcovR^iful services to the 
 81a(c, ho ve:y modestly, in loply <o a well- 
 merited complimont, a(idr(/K3td to him by ibo 
 Mayor of the Capital, »vho praised his History 
 of Ireland as his iiiru-atcMt work, that he was 
 well aware of in mani/ faults and imperfecliom, 
 and that if he were favored with life and health a 
 few years longer, lie would endeavour to find time 
 to correct them. And yet this is the work 
 of which compefont < ritics have said that It is 
 the moti to bu rttlied on, of tho few readable 
 histories of Iroltnd that exist, while in point 
 of style, grace and beauty of diction, it is in- 
 finitely superior to several histories which are 
 considered authentic, \>u^ which none but the 
 most determined student would undertake to 
 lead. Mr. McGco leldoni wrdto versos. But 
 when he did, his poetry like his prose, was 
 devoted to tho cause of truth. How true iu 
 feeling acd in seutiment are not his lines on 
 Tasso's tomb! How nobly was he not inspir- 
 ed' by the sight of Christian and classic 
 Rome! Who amongst us, tan ever forget 
 bis intensely pstbttic, most moving 
 and truly pious stauzas to the memory 
 of his friend of Montreal, the late Mr. 
 Dcvaney? Poet, orator, historian, issayist, 
 titatesmant Who ever combined so many 
 qualities, i>o many talents ? Who ever becamb 
 eminent, and so greatly eminent, in so many 
 ways ? Welt may Canadians mourn. Quando 
 ultuminvcnicnt parent? His extraordinary in- 
 tellectual powers were accompanied and grac- 
 ed by no less benevolence and amiability of 
 character. Who ever sought his aid and was 
 denied it 7 Who among the lowly and tho 
 poor, that does not now raise his voice to 
 Heaven in prayer for his eternal peace ? What 
 benevolent charitable asscciation throughcnt 
 the land that. does not plead in his behalf 
 the promise ot theLoid to thosd who comfort 
 him in the persona of his afHictod servants ? 
 
 " I was hungry, and you gave me to eat ; I was 
 thirttyi twd you gave me to drink ; Ao. Amen. 
 1 say to you as long you did such things to one of 
 these ray {e^gt br«tt)r9p, yoq did it to oie."— ifoM. 
 15: 85.40, 
 
 J?ot only did Mr, ajcQee contriluty largely 
 
 towards raising up a nition-x! literature in this 
 new uatl.m, which his patriotic etforts had so 
 powerfully aided in building up, hu sttidied 
 also to encourage and fostor literary efforts on 
 the i)art of others. It wai not necessary in 
 Older to gain his favor and win his words of 
 approval, that the aspirant to liturary honots 
 should sliare his political or religious views. 
 He knew neither sect nor party iu the .leld of 
 letters. Sound thought, pure, geuerops and 
 noblu sentiment cogethei^with tho truth of 
 feeling, were his only to%U. Where these cx> 
 istedj he hesitated uot to judge every writer 
 according to bis uprits. Nor was ha a rigid 
 critic, it woa his aim and policy, — a policy 
 which flawed from bis inherent goodness, not 
 less than from his zeal in the cause of lite-ra. 
 lure, to encourage by commendation any dawn- 
 ing of authorship , rather than to correct and 
 instruct by the strict truth of criticism. Moro 
 matured works, he know, would ccme with 
 maturer years. The expanding buds of talent 
 required only to be carefully tended. And 
 who more considerate than D'Airy McGoe In his 
 care for such precious germs? When ho rose to 
 a high position in tho State.lm was, it is far from 
 being too much to s'ly it, the Mecicnas of 
 his time and country. If it had pleased 
 Divine Providence to preserve him a lew 
 years longer from the savage bands of bidden 
 enemies, we might have indulged the pleasiiiti: 
 hope of beholding in our own day, in these 
 United Provioces, an epoch not less renowned 
 in letters than the augui^tan ugu of Rome, or an 
 eia like to that of Leo X. in modern Italy, or 
 to the reign of Louis XIV. — the classic ago 
 of France, or to our own brightest days ot lit- 
 erary fame — thoShaksptarean, Miltonian, Ad- 
 disonian, and Johnsonian epochs. But, alas ! 
 how vain are all human hopes ; how are the 
 micrhty fallen I Cities of Canada that have 
 witnessed suih a deed, lament and we^p — 
 weep until your tears have washed from your 
 polluted laud so foul a stain. May never tho 
 rain of Heaven, nor its freshening dews dt- 
 scend upon you more, till your iniquity bo 
 blotted out!* And let the children of grucn 
 Knn weep 1 Their friend, their stay, their 
 David is no more ! Their voice, tog thtr 
 with his eloquent speech, is for ever silenced 
 in these land:). Who will ever reciiect them ? 
 Who will ever heed them .any more ? Their 
 enemies will say that they are men of strife, 
 of violence and blood. In vain shall a friendly 
 voice, in days to come, bo lifted in theit cause. 
 'I'he awful handwriting which the murderer's 
 hand has written upon (ur cities' walls, and 
 which neither time nor tho skill of man cau 
 
 * King David lamenting the death ot Saul and 
 Jonathan said : " Ye mountain.s of Gelb^e, let nei- 
 th'tt dew nor rain oome down upon ynj, for there 
 was cast away the shield of the TaUant..the shifld 
 efB§ul,&o." Cu.Kui99i,?l,3 
 
(ever obliterate, will nxj out against them. 
 Ko power can still this cry— no reasoning 
 confute it. Ah 1 mourn, O people that were 
 late so favored I Amid the general sorrow 
 none have such cause to W!e tp as you. Who 
 ever was — whoever could (lave been— more 
 your friend than him whos* loss we deplore ? 
 No change of place, or time, or c'rcumstances, 
 could ever alter oi diminiRh iiis affection for 
 you. Hi'h love for Ireland only grew in 
 iuvensity m he grew in yenr.t. Neither (he 
 fame wliich crowned his genius in the land of 
 his adoption, nor the honors that wiro .. aped 
 upon liim in the State and by the people, ever 
 leHKened his /.eal for lier weh'aro. Neither his 
 vaiied literary occupations, nor his multifar- 
 ious duties in the Parliament or counsels of 
 Canada made him forget, even for one moment, 
 Iiis loved Erin, or cease from laboring to pro- 
 mota her interests. On tlie occasion of both 
 his visits to Europe, as a Canadian statesman, 
 and in the fuitherance of the affairs of the im- 
 portant Dominion of Canada, he failed not to 
 urge earnestly on tbe attention of the most 
 eminent British lalattHmen of the two 
 great parties, the iiec..-8!jity of reform 
 in .Ireland. When bu. rounded on last St. 
 Patrick's day by the great men of the land, 
 who had assembled for ro other purpose than 
 to pay the T.ell won tribute of honor to Iiis 
 great talents and public services, far from 
 being elated by so great a triumph, for liis 
 modesty waa cVer equal to his merits, he 
 declared emphatically in the midst of tliat il- 
 lustrious assembly that he thanked them 
 more than for the great honor which their 
 presence conferred upon him personally, for 
 the opportunity whicli it afforded him of 
 causing his views in regard to Ireland, to be 
 wafted over the Atlantic, and communicated 
 to.tho statesmt-n of Great Britain, in a way 
 which, he hoped, would produce a salutary 
 impression on ibcir minds for the good and 
 the happiness of his dear native land. 
 
 *'I shall not," he said, "presume, Mr. Mayor, 
 because I am your chief guest, to monopolize 
 the evening ; I will only say farther on the sub- 
 ject of Ireland, that I claim the right to love and 
 serve her, and her sons in Canada, in my own 
 way, which is not ty either approval or con- 
 nivance with enterprises my rsason condemns 
 03 futile in their conception, and my heait 
 rejects as criminal in their consequences. 
 (Loud cheers.") Before I close, Mr. Mayor, 
 permit me to add one thing more : speaking 
 from this place — the capital of British Ameri- 
 ca— iu this presence — before so many of the 
 most honored public men of British America — 
 jet me venture, again to say, in the name of 
 British America, to the statesmen of Great 
 Btitain->-' settle for our aakes and your own ; 
 for the saljie ot international poace, settle 
 j^romptlf and generouily the eocial and eccle- 
 
 siastical condition of Ireland, on terms to 
 satisfy the majority of the people to be gov- 
 erned. Every one sees and feels that while 
 rCngland lifts her white cliffs above tho waves, 
 she never can sutler a rival Government — sf, 
 hostile Government — to be set upon the other 
 side of her : whatever tho aspirations for Irish 
 autonomy, tho Union is an inexorable politi- 
 cal necessity, ks inexorable for England as for 
 Ireland ; but there is one miraculous agency 
 which has yet to be luUy and fairly tried out 
 in Ireland ; brute force has failed, proselytism 
 has failed, anglification has failed ; try, if only 
 as a novelty, try patiently and tlioroughly, 
 statesmen of the Empire I tho miraculous 
 agoncy of equal and exact justice, for one or 
 two generationr.' (Loud cheers.) Gentlf- 
 men and Mr. Mayor, I again thank you for 
 the three-fold gratification you have atTorded 
 me this evening ; for your great undeserved 
 complime::t to myself personally ; for being 
 allowed to unite with you in this way in a 
 union banquet of Irish-Canadians in the capi- 
 tal of Canada ; and lastly, for the opportunity 
 you have afforded me, of saying a word in sea- 
 son, on behalf of that aucient and illustrious 
 Island, the mere mention of whicli, especially 
 on the 1 Tth ot March, warms the heart of every 
 Irishman, in whatever longitude the day may 
 dawn, or tho stars look down upon his politi- 
 cal destinies, or Jiis piivate enjoyments." 
 (Loud cheers."* 
 
 On the day l);toro that which fiendish 
 malice resolved should be bis last in this 
 world, he wrota at length to a member of the 
 British GoTernm<?nt, tho Right Hon. the Karl 
 of Mayo, nst so much in order to thank that 
 nobleman for the well deserved oulogium 
 which he had pronounced upon him in Parlia- 
 ment, as to represent to him how necessary it 
 was that the work of Reform, and of thoro^igh 
 Reform, should hi enfgetically proceeded 
 with in Ireland. If a p.owerful section of the 
 groat Conservative j aity are now prepared to 
 consider favorably Ireland's rights, if tho Re- 
 formers of the Empire now as one man ar-^ 
 engaged, heart and hand, in forwarding the 
 essential work of Irish Reform, who knows 
 to what extent, all this is duo to the earnest 
 and unceasing representations and remonstran- 
 ces of the Hon. Thomas E'Arcy f '[cGee ? O, 
 that I could say that no Irishmao had a hand 
 in his untimely fatel* 
 
 * " And by whom has this tremendous deed 
 been perpetrated ? Was it by wild Indians? — a 
 savage, a CLerokoe, a Blaoktoot, a Hottentot, or a 
 New Zealander? Was it by an Orangeiran — 
 English. Scotch, American, or Canadian? Waa 
 it by a Benijal tiger, a hvena, ot a demon in hu- 
 man form? But, Oh. God I to think that this 
 Prince oflrishmeo, for mere blood money, for pri« 
 vata vengeanoa, wonld havo been trailed for 
 monthly and straok down \>j the miioraant blood 
 
la wLttti3ver liglti Wo consider him, 
 tho Honoiabli) Tbomas DMrcy McOeo 
 was no commoQ man, but errare human' 
 umeit; was he, iu uvuy riHpcct, ubovc tho 
 condition of our commou liunianity? waH ho 
 all excellcn';e — all pci faction? To bh'- that 
 hu was obovu i\\i human w^'okncHH, would 
 Burely bo exaggeration ; but ho was more. Ho 
 roio superior to such wcakncsfi. Ho did what 
 fow TDvn do. Ho won a victory which fow 
 iispirc! to. Ho realized tho Rrnurt idea of the 
 pre-christiau Faj^e; — tho sublime teaching of 
 tho christian faith — he conquered himself. If 
 he heard thisoulogium, the truest, tliu greatcHt 
 that can be pronounced upon him, ho would 
 disclaim thu honor of a conquest >.ioro glori- 
 ouu to liim thnn nil the laurels ho ever 
 gathered in tho wide and varied field of litera- 
 ture, or in that arena which only few can Rtrive 
 iu, tho moro t'X.ilttid sphere of Ktattsmnnsbip; 
 lie would have said, like him ofthe giant mind, 
 who wos so intensely human, and yet so far 
 beyond humanit}', •' by the grace of Ood lam 
 wftat I am." (I. Co-. : 15, 10.) lEe was not 
 inde«d called to the same apostleship ns Paul. 
 But bis was nevertheless, a great apostleship. 
 It was thoapostlefchip of I'eaco. And ho wai 
 notunworthy of it. Ho who called him to so 
 great a mission, blessed him with f^uccess ; 
 and an united people, may we hope, will long 
 enjoy its happy fruits. His work whilst it 
 follows him beyond the grave, (^Blesaed are 
 the dead who die in the Lord. From henceforth 
 now, saith tho spirit, that tliey may rest from 
 their labors ; for their works follow them. 
 [Apoc. : 14 ; 13],) yet remains behind 
 nim. The memory of his martyr-fate 
 will impress it dseper and deeper every day, 
 tor ages to come, on the minds of his felloiv- 
 countryr i, and unborn generations will not 
 only poiu. to him as an example of virtu: and 
 Jorti iide, but also as the preacher ef peace 
 and the regenerator of his country. Nor was 
 D'Arcy McGeo a mere philanthropist. The 
 t'.achings of (ho CUurcli Catholic found an 
 echo in his expanded mind. The principles of 
 Christianity which he had imbibed in earliest 
 youth. Were tho principles of his maturer 
 monbood. What ho learned and followed in 
 
 i 
 
 red hand of cne of his own conntrymen, is perfo'Jt- 
 ly overwhelming." — Archbishop of Halifax. 
 
 tho simplicity and Innocence of childhooc^ he 
 accepted in after years, as thu guide of his 
 powerful and highly developed lutelloct. His 
 was a profound, but not a blind belief. Ho 
 was highly gifted with divine faith, as with so 
 many othor mental endowments. His eu- 
 lightencd reason beheld in tliis faith a grcriter 
 light than its own, and ho honored i* with 
 the most humble and devoted obedience,— obe- 
 dience which was renHonable, but complete ; 
 thus realising tho sublime and truly philoso- 
 phic doctrine of St, Vnul : " ralionabili^ o^.v - 
 (jiiium ventruiii.'' (U'l-- • 12; 1.) What he be- 
 lieved ho fuired i ofess; and many will 
 bless his menior j loving pains whieli 
 ho bestowed iu ptt/v^ing to them, "xpoundiii;,' 
 and imprepsing upon their minds, those all 
 important doctrines which were a stay and a 
 joy to himself. Nor did he fiil to pnu'tic- 
 what both iu private conversation anU on all 
 fUtiii^ public occasion^, ho so often and so 
 elciiuently preached. What couhl have been 
 more edifying than his luobt regular and devout 
 attendance at public worship ? What mor*} 
 alfecling — what nioro cheering to every chris- 
 tian miud, than his child-like attention to the 
 preaching of the word of Ood ? But he was 
 also u most pious communicant, fulfllUn^ with 
 tiliul aiftotion, all the spiritual dutic? which 
 the Church imposes on her children. It was 
 fitting, but not to by wondered at, that when 
 thu hourof viKitutie.i came, such a man should 
 be tound iit his post. If to Icvo God and to 
 serve him be one and tho same thing ; surely 
 hih is now tho ic^t of those to whom all things 
 happen opportunely and concur for their good, 
 because thtylove Cod. " Biliijentibus Deum 
 omnia co-opernnlur in bonump (Rom. 8, 28). On 
 the day btfore that on which he was so sud- 
 donl}-, but surely not unpreparedly called 
 away, ho was engaged directly iu tae service 
 of Cod on the Lord's own Day and in His 
 holy place. Later, and until the last moment, 
 he was actively employed in doing the will ot 
 God — serving hi.s neighbor — laboring to ad- 
 vance the cause of pi ace and friendly feeling 
 amongst his fellow-men. " Well done thou 
 good and failhfid seiv.ant." Such are our 
 thoughts regarding him whose loss we mourn. 
 Wo can only add our earnest wish and fervent 
 prayer for his eternal happiness. Requiem 
 mtcmam dona ei IJomine !