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of his heart, you could not doubt the result of such 

 a mission. 



Great was the loss sustained by the city and the 

 Diocese, indeed by the whole Church, in his death. 

 Many of his purposes were for a time retarded. 

 Already had arrangements been made by him for 

 adding to the spacious building of the University, 

 another one of brick, double the size of the present 

 one. The Convent and Academy of the Sisters of 

 Mercy was to have been increased to double its 

 present dimensions. The ground was laid out for 

 the erection of a Charity Hospital, and for an 

 Orphan Asylum, and the contract had been entered 

 into for publishing a Catholic newspaper in this city. 

 These were all suspended at once; for the master- 

 spirit was gone ! 



A new foundation of the Sisters of Mercy in 

 Galena was projected by him, and the necessary 

 building purchased. This plan of his, as well as 

 every other one possible under the circumstances, 

 was carried out by his worthy brother, the Admin- 

 istrator of the diocese, and on the 28th of May, six 

 Sisters departed for this mission. 



The day after his death, the following eloquent 

 tribute to his memory, from the pen of a cherished 

 Protestant friend, S. Lisle Smith, esq., appeared in 

 the Chicago Journal : 



On Monday morning, at 3 o'clock, William Quarter, 

 Bishop of Cliicago, yielded up his spirit to his Maker. On the 

 preceding beautiful Sabbath morning, this faithful servant of 

 God stood in the house consecrated to the worship of the Most 



