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hard dry bread, so that they might give all they 

 possessed to the advancement of that holy cause 

 on which their hearts were fixed. What could 

 retard the progress of the Church that was supported 

 by such self-devotion and sacrifices — that Church 

 which had the promise of the Holy Ghost to sustain 

 her for ever — against which "the gates of hell 

 cannot prevail?" 



Many kind, and generous and liberal Protestant 

 gentlemen of the city, aided him much by donations 

 and encouragement; and to Messrs. \V. B. Ogden, 

 W. Newberry, and J. Y. Scammon, Esqs., the 

 Catholic Church of Chicago owes a great debt of 

 gratitude, and one which will not be soon forgotten. 

 Besides, he was liberally assisted by that staunch 

 friend of his own, James Kerrigan, Esq., of New 

 York, while the funds and the energies of his dearly 

 loved brother. Very Rev. Walter J. Quarter, were 

 always at his disposal. 



By "an inscrutable decree of Divine Providence," 

 however, he was called away, in the midst of his 

 usefulness, to make room for a worthy successor.* 

 How lamentable is it, that the catastrophe was so 

 sudden! How precious would have been the words 

 of such a man, as he calmly contemplated the 

 passage to "that land whence no traveller returns!" 

 Oh! it is at the last hour of life, when the world is 

 fast fading from the view, and the morning of 

 eternity is dawning, that the admonitions of the good 

 are like the prophetic warnings of old, which warm 



* Rt. Rev. Jas. Vandevelde, D. D., now Bishop of Chicago. 



