"churchwardens and the members of the board who had helped him in the work of the Church," and gave special instructions respecting attention to the spiritual wants of some young people who had formerly been in his service, with many other touching remembrances. He spoke as little as he could, and did not mention those who were nearest to him on earth; but there was one, of whom he said he could not die without rendering his testimony to what she had been to him and to her children.

The anxiety and sorrow which his illness caused were not confined to his own house. The fervour of the amens of the people, when he was prayed for in the different churches, was most striking, and prayers were offered for his recovery even in Roman catholic churches. A clergyman of great experience of life wrote to me that he had never seen 66 so universal a demonstration of regard, respect, affection, hope and prayer as that which has been elicited by the illness of your dear father. That God may speedily help and deliver him is the sincere prayer of all whom I meet." But that deliverance was to come, not as they hoped. He said to one of his children, "you know my will is His will, and even these grey hairs are all numbered." On the evening of the 5th January (the birthday of his youngest child, which he well remembered,) he was lying on a sofa to which he had been carried from his bed, in the hope of gaining some ease by change of posture, with one of his children standing on each side of him, when he suddenly looked up on us with a smile such as I can never forget; it was not of this earth. A few moments afterwards, when I was alone with him, he called his two daughters from the next room, but the exertion was too great to admit of his speaking when they came. We saw the end approaching, and knelt before him, while he laid his hands on our head without speaking. God strengthened me to say the commendatory prayer, and when I had finished he said, "O Saviour," meaning me to use the short prayer in the visitation office beginning with those words, which I

did. He then said, "I could not take sacrament, because I could not swallow, but I know God will be merciful to me a sinner," laying his hand upon his heart. After this he rallied a little, and when his daughter-in-law, who had been sent for, came in, he drew her to him, and kissed her repeatedly; and then, as she knelt, showered all blessings, spiritual and temporal, on her head. He did the same for her brother, adapting his words to the case of a young man; and then to his little grand-children, to whom he said, "My children, I am dying; I am going to the other world (pointing upwards): you know how tenderly I have always loved you here," and then laid his hands on the head of each. His servants next came in, but he was too much exhausted to speak to any but the first three, who had all lived very long with him. I am sure they will none of them ever forget that night. They all knelt for his blessing, and he spoke to all. To the first he said, "God bless you, and all your house; I wish it had pleased God that I could have seen all (the servants) before I die. I commend them all, and all the children, to God's blessing and guidance, through Christ." He was then moved back to his bed, and soon afterwards told me to read the twelfth chapter of Isaiah, after which he lay for several hours without speaking, with very little suffering, and engaged in peaceful meditation. About half-past one, A.M., on the feast of the Epiphany, the cold hand of death was laid upon him. He said, "Lift me up." We raised him in our arms, and I felt no more movement than if an infant had fallen asleep upon my shoulder, while those who were in front of him saw him gently close his own eyes. His family and diocese were fatherless. But they can still celebrate the feast of the Epiphany with sacred joy, for they believe that through the merits of Him Whom he knew here by faith, Whose he was, and Whom he served, his spirit then entered on so much. of the fruition of His glorious Godhead as is permitted to the saints in paradise.

CHAPTER XXIX.

Funeral--Testimonies to his character.

ONE of his last wishes was that there should be "no superfluous expense at his funeral:" and it would have been in accordance with our own feelings to have conducted it with privacy. But we felt that he belonged to his diocese nearly as much as to ourselves, and were willing therefore to yield to the wishes of the many who expressed their desire to share with us the privilege of doing honour to his remains. The wardens and vestry of the cathedral charged themselves with the necessary arrangements for the procession, which were left entirely in their hands. We selected the six senior alumni of Bishop's College for the mournful task of carrying him. I had indeed some scruple in bringing some of them from a distance on account of the expense to which they must be subjected: but I am sure they all shared the feeling which one of them expressed when he said, "The question of expense is nothing, for which of the clergy would not deny himself almost anything, to pay this last tribute of affection to him who was ever kind and gentle, and loving as a father?" Thirty-eight clergymen walked in their surplices (besides four who followed as private mourners), preceded by the male and female orphans of the two asylums. The Governor General and his staff, the Judges, members of the Executive and Legislative Councils, the Bar, the City Corporation, the delegates of the Synod, the wardens of the cathedral and chapels, the Corporation of Bishops' College and of the Church

Society, the officers of the garrison and the St. George's Society followed, as well as an immense concourse of persons of all origins and denominations, many of whom were unable to restrain their outward demonstrations of heartfelt sorrow.* The procession moved on foot from the cathedral, where the first part of the service was performed, to the cemetery, a distance of three miles. Business was suspended in the city at the suggestion of the mayor (a Roman catholic, though once of the Church of England), and scarcely any one left the ranks of the procession before the cemetery had been reached. It had been the wish of some persons that he should be laid with his fathert under the altar in the cathedral, but we knew he would have preferred a humbler resting-place in his mother-earth, and we laid him to rest beside her who had been dearest to him in life. The City Council had adjourned, and unanimously resolved, on motion of a Roman catholic member, seconded by another of the same persuasion, "as a well-deserved mark of the deep respect of all denominations and classes of citizens," to attend the funeral in a body. The mayor, in his proclamation for the suspension of business, said:

"In requesting the citizens of Quebec to give expression, by outward demonstration, to the profound sorrow and regret which they feel at the great loss which the entire community has sustained by the lamented demise of the universally revered and respected Lord Bishop of Quebec, I am satisfied that I only anticipate their desire to evince another mark of respect for the memory of the distinguished deceased."

In putting the resolution of the Corporation, he had said :

"The painful event is mourned by all as an irreparable loss to the community, and it will be difficult indeed to fill his place by a successor who will approach his talents and his virtues."

A clergyman who officiated at St. Michael's chapel on the feast of the Epiphany was so overcome by his feelings that he was unable to go through the service.

It was erroneously stated in a Quebec paper that his mother had been buried in the cathedral also.

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The Bar of Quebec passed similar resolutions, one presbyterian and three Roman catholic gentlemen being among the movers and seconders, while among the bodies more immediately connected with him, the same marks of respect were overflowing. The Church Societies of Quebec, Montreal, and Toronto, the vestry of the cathedral of Quebec, the congregation of St. Matthew's chapel, the Corporation of Bishop's College, the St. George's Society of Quebec, have all placed on their records their strong sense of their loss. The cathedral vestry recommended the members of the Church to wear mourning for a month, which in Quebec, and probably in Montreal* also, was generally done by persons of all classes. There is one resolution which I must place on record here. When the diocesan synod met to elect his successor, before proceeding to business, it was,

"Moved by H. S. Scott, Esq., seconded by Rev. H. Roe, and carried by all the members of the synod standing in solemn silence, That this synod desires to express its sense of the great loss which this diocese has sustained by the removal of the late beloved and lamented Lord Bishop, whose patience and urbanity as its president, his devotion to the advancement of the interests of the Church and the personal sacrifices he was always ready to make in its cause, had secured for him the affectionate reverence of all who had the happiness to be placed under his charge."

Far, far better than any official pageant and ceremony were all these entirely spontaneous demonstrations. Many who took a leading part in them were personally unknown to him, but they prove how wide-spread is the effect of a holy life, though exhibited by one who never mixed in public or political affairs, except so far as they directly concerned the duties of that sacred calling to which his whole self was devoted. It had been proposed by some of the military authorities that the troops should line the streets on the day of the funeral, but some recent military rule was found to interfere with this,

Many churches in the city and diocese of Montreal were hung in mourning.