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C'est-à-dire que Sir François Langelier fut l'un des produits 

 les plus parfaits que la race canadienne-française pouvait donner, 

 il y a trois-qurats de siècle. Etonnamment doué sans doute sous le 

 rapport des dons naturels, mais incapable par contre de combler les 

 vides qui, à cette époque particulièrement, faisaient la faiblesse ou 

 atténuaient du moins la valeur de nos progrès intellectuels. 



De toute autre toutefois, il fut merveilleux. Au barreau, à 

 la chaire d'enseignement, à la tribune publique, au banc du magis- 

 trat, il brilla d'une égale distinction et domina d'une incontestable 

 supériorité. C'est pourquoi tous les partis, à l'exemple des indivi- 

 dus, peuvent en ce moment sans rien abdiquer de de qui leur est pro- 

 pre, l'honorer avec une si parfaite sincérité. 



(2) Most Rev. M. F. Howley, 

 Archbishop of St. John's, Newfoundland. 



By the death of Archbishop Howley, Newfoundland lost one of 

 her most talented sons and her most prominent and patriotic citizens. 



Michael Francis Howley was born at St. John's, Sept. 25, 1843. 

 Having completed his preliminary studies in his native town, he pro- 

 ceeded in 1863 to the Propaganda, Rome, to study for the priesthood. 

 He was ordained in June, 1868, and after acting for some time as 

 Secretary to the then Archbishop of Glasgow, he returned in Sept., 

 1870 to his own country. For the past forty-four years both as Preist 

 and Bishop Dr. Howley took the leading part in the religious and civil 

 life of Terra Nova. Raised to the episcopate in 1892 he was the first 

 Newfoundlander, to reach that dignity, and the scene of enthusiasm at 

 his Consecration in St. John's, June 24, 1892 can never be forgotten 

 by those who witnessed it. He ruled the See of St. George's, West 

 Newfoundland, for three years and was translated to St. John's, Dec, 

 1894. In 1904 he was named Archbishop and governed his diocese 

 wisely and well until Oct. 15, 1914, when he passed away in the seventy- 

 second year of his age. 



Archbishop Howley was a man of superior literary attainments; 

 he had a knack of grouping words gracefully and forcibly together 

 and the inborn talent was improved by assiduous cultivation. Of him 

 it may be said as was said of a great painter, nulla dies sine linea. 

 His numerous essays both on ecclesiastical and historical themes were 

 marked by great erudition, interesting exposition and sober judgment. 

 His wide reading and catholic tastes in literature gave him mastery 

 over a large number of subjects, while his travels and long experience 



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