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New Zealand Tablet, 15 May 1913, Page 51

Having concluded the burial service at the interment of the late Mr, Ronald Stewart, his Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne spoke as follows:Considering the sad circumstances in which we meet to-day, it is unnecessary to ask for your fervent prayers for the. soul of Mr. Ronald Stewart. In every capacity in life, as a good father, a good husband, a good citizen,, a good Christian, and a good Catholic, he certainly fulfilled in an admirable manner all the duties of the various relations of life. You know he was a man of superior intelligence, of wide reading, of high critical judgmenta man who devoted his life to the elucidation of truth and shed credit on the Church, to which he was a convert. His death is a great loss, and a great loss particularly to the Catholic literature of Melbourne and the archdiocese. Nevertheless, the Almighty knows; what is good, and it is piously believed by many that men are taken at their best-not at their best as the world knows it, but at their best as the Almighty knows it. We may hope, therefore; that God has shown mercy to his soul, and that if he is not immediately admitted to the enjoyment of Heaven, his time of detention; will be short. We send out our sympathy to his-sorrowing widow and children. May God comfort them in their distress and provide for them in their need. They will not have the assistance of such a father and husband, but God will be their Father, as He is always to the orphan and widow. . We pray that God may grant eternal repose to * his soul, and to the souls of all the faithful departed. ■ • .