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have been long forgotten. Thus will the schools 

 established by Bishop Quarter continue to shed 

 abroad over the world the light of science and of 

 religion, forming an holy union, blessed before the 

 throne of God, strewing the thorny pathway of life 

 with roses that bloom even in the winter of age, and 

 deck with their never-fading loveliness the lonesome 

 prison-house of the grave. 



How strongly did he urge the wedded union of 

 religion and philosophy, and while he wished to 

 store the intellect with treasures of learning, he 

 endeavoured to furnish the heart with unfailing 

 support against the bitter trials of life! Here 

 indeed does religion fulfil her divine mission, turning 

 the wayworn and the weary into that beautiful valley 

 of virtue and faith, where its purified waters will 

 bring refreshment to the seared hearts of thousands, 

 causing them to bless the author of their being, and 

 teaching them to look with a steady eye onward, to 

 that home in which they may sit down to rest after 

 their pilgrimage is ended — that home in their father's 

 house in heaven. 



So eager was he to establish schools of a kind in 

 which the very highest order of literary and scientific 

 learning would be imparted together with proper 

 religious instruction, that he determined to establish 

 a University; and on the iqth of December of this 

 year a bill was passed by the legislature, incor- 

 porating "the University of St. Mary of the Lake." 



With the same solicitude for the spiritual welfare 

 of the children under his charge, that characterized 



