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his efforts in behalf of the children of St. Mary's, 

 New York, he now, when he could obtain a moment's 

 leisure, set about providing means for their spiritual 

 instructions, more directly even than could be 

 accomplished in the schools ; and for this purpose he 

 formed those children into a pious association, and 

 the lessons then learned from his lips show their 

 fruit in the virtuous and exemplary young men and 

 women that form part of the Catholic youth of 

 Chicago. 



The same legislature that passed the law incor- 

 porating the University of St. Mary of the Lake, 

 passed a bill empowering the Bishop of Chicago and 

 his successors to hold property in trust for the use 

 of the Catholic Church. The passage of a law, 

 which, as far as I know, exists in every diocese in the 

 United States, has in itself nothing strange or 

 unusual, nor would it have found a notice here, 

 only that from want of understanding its nature, 

 it has been sometimes represented in a false light, 

 and has been supposed to be an unreasonable law. 

 Some of the advantages of this law are, that as 

 properties are held in trust for the Church, and not 

 as personal property, they must in every contingency 

 be more secure. As the title of Bishop of Chicago 

 and his successors is recognised by the laws of the 

 State by virtue of this act, properties, willed to the 

 Bishop of Chicago for charitable purposes, can be 

 legally recovered, and applied to their destined uses. 

 This could not otherwise have been done, unless 

 such bequests were made to the Bishop in his 



