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CHAPTER VI. 



REVIEW OF HIS LABOURS; HIS CHARACTER. — CONCLUSION. 



Thus died Bishop Quarter, in the prime of his 

 life, and at the very threshold of his usefulness. Yet 

 short as was his career, it was brilliant almost 

 beyond example. — His life was not undisturbed by 

 storms, but in their midst he heard a voice that the 

 world does not hear, and his frail bark was guided by 

 a hand more powerful than the mightiest ocean 

 surge. 



Amid all his trials, he kept steadily in view the 

 great object of his mission; and when he expounded 

 that holy book to the weary and the heavily bur- 

 dened; when he spoke of the healing of the blind, 

 the lame, the palsied, the leper, and the beggar; 

 when he repeated the sentence of the pardon of God 

 the Father to the woman stained with shame; and 

 when he told that upon the cross the malefactor, in 

 his last hour, obtained the forgiveness of Christ; 

 when he spoke of the ministry of God, the Son, 

 upon earth, who from his birth to his death shared 

 the griefs and sorrows of our life, sweetly compas- 

 sionating our woes, and pleading with his heavenly 

 Father for our redemption; could you, dear reader, 

 have seen him then, with his sparkling eyes upturned 

 to heaven, with that wistful gaze of hopeful reverence 

 pleading for pardon for his people in the earnestness 



