DEATH

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 42, 20 October 1904, Page 17

DEATH

SHEPHERD.— At his parents' residence, Ettrick St, Tnvercargill, on" 3Uth September, 1904, Reginald Loo, beloved infant son of John and Hajnnah Shepherd ; aged 14 months. Deeply regiettexl.— R.l. P. j, He was a flowey, fresh, fair, and pure, and frail, " ",A lily in life's morning— God is sweety ' He reached His hand— there rose a mother's wail, Her lily drooped— 'tis blooming at IKS' feet. WINDLE.— On October 15, as the result 61 an accident, Henry Wmdje, Longridge Village ; aged 54 years. Deeply regretted.— R.l.l*.

church. This event we are celebrating to-day. When the foundation stone of this church wias laid tjhe official returns tell us that the Catholic population of Port Phillip, as JVlel bourne was Men called, consisted ol 2073 siauls. In tlie short space of sixty years how that grain of mustard seed has multiplied ! In plaxe of that little congregation we have now in the State of Victoria 1 Archbislhop, 3 Bishops-, 238 priests, S5 religiQus; Brothers, I.UIJ) nuns, 350 churches, 36,35/) children attending Catholic schools, and a Catholic population of 263,710.' The Fathers of the Sydney Plenary Council of 1&85 exclaimed in heartfelt thankfulness : ' TJie prevalent impression on our minds during tihese days of our Council is one of intense thankfulness to God, Who has so blessed the mustard seed of tilie Faith in Austlralasia. At a date so recent as to be qjuite within the memory of men still moving amongst us, there was not one priest nor one alt^r in all these Southern lands. It is not simply tiiat the minis* rations of the Church were poor and scant, but, as a matter of fact, it did not exist. ' The heads of the Church m Victoria may, in like manner, thank witfh full hearts the Giver of all goiod guilts for tihe rich blessing of fruitfmlness which He has ghe-n to the Church in that State during the past sixty years.