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policy in days and years yet to come? God only. 



Having now the household of his Diocese in 

 order, he summoned a Diocesan Synod of his 

 clergymen: of these, thirty-two were present and 

 nine absent in consequence of ill health, or bad 

 roads. — This Synod met in Chicago, in the April of 

 this year, and with his assistance formed the Statutes 

 of the Diocese. Forty-one clergymen already in 

 this new Diocese! How must Bishop Quarter have, 

 laboured, to have gathered around him so many 

 disciples, worthy disciples of the fishermen of 

 Galilee! — men of every country and clime, come 

 hither to dispense the glad tidings of salvation, — 

 sending up like incense to the throne of heaven, the 

 praises of their Creator, — and raising loudly their 

 voices amid the late solemn silence of the wilderness, 

 or by the side of the streams that had hitherto 

 hymned up their everlasting anthems unchorussed 

 by the voice of mortal man! 



The convent of the Sisters of Mercy was now too 

 small for the accommodation of the numbers that 

 flocked to their schools, and he therefore commenced 

 and completed, during this the last year of his life, 

 the large and convenient building at present occupied 

 by the Sisters of Mercy as their Convent and 

 Academy. It was incorporated by the legislature 

 in 1846, and possesses a most ample charter. The 

 building is located in the most beautiful and healthy 

 part of the city, and but one square removed from 

 the beach. In front of it stretches away, as far 



