. Memorial of the life and labors of Rt. Rev. Stephen Vincent Ryan, D. D., C. M., : second Bishop of Buffalo, N. : 1 1 \ 1J: HOLY ANGELS CHURCH AND SCHOOL, In charge of the Oblate Chaptci? /AIII. Analysts of His Character—Opposites Harmonised—ConqueredHimself Like St. Francis de Sales—Charity His ConspicuousVirtue—The Aged Poor and the Orphans—His Priests theApple of His Eye. WHILE leaving to other pens, mostly Protestant and secuhir,the larger portraiture of Bishop Ryans character, yet, nowthat the tomb is sealed above his lifeless form, the present writercannot withhol
. Memorial of the life and labors of Rt. Rev. Stephen Vincent Ryan, D. D., C. M., : second Bishop of Buffalo, N. : 1 1 \ 1J: HOLY ANGELS CHURCH AND SCHOOL, In charge of the Oblate Chaptci? /AIII. Analysts of His Character—Opposites Harmonised—ConqueredHimself Like St. Francis de Sales—Charity His ConspicuousVirtue—The Aged Poor and the Orphans—His Priests theApple of His Eye. WHILE leaving to other pens, mostly Protestant and secuhir,the larger portraiture of Bishop Ryans character, yet, nowthat the tomb is sealed above his lifeless form, the present writercannot withhold a few shadowy outlines of its leading traits aspictured in his own mind and heart. The foundations of his mental and moral structure were laidby nature with gentle and generous hand; while the rare quality, were admirably tempered with the sunlight andthe shower. Resting on foundation so favorable, no marvel thatthe supernatural, so sweetly attuned to all the harmonies, buildedloftily toward the stars; that the structure was vast and fair,within whose confines the weary and disconsolate found solaceand rest; whose tapering turrets, reaching the lofty ether dim,were the
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