Let other nationsEing the past,

And ancient glories dead,

Their sons their glance must backward cast, Whidl ours shall look ahead;

Republics rot and kingdoms fall,

Time other states devours,

But thou shall Spread time's funeral pall, Sweet Canada of ours. (23)

Some understanding of what his parishioners thought of him can be gauged from the following excerpts of an address delivered to Father Doyle before his departure from the parish in September, 1890.

Dear Rev. Father, Your parishioners in the mission of Kinkora and Seven Mile Bay have learned with deep regret that you have decided to relinquish the spiritual charge you have exercised for the last five- and-twenty years with an acceptableness un- equalled, we hesitate not to say, by any other priest in the diocese, .... That this announcement should weigh down our hearts with sorrow could only be expected, especially when we had cometo regard you, by reason of your long residence among us, and the oft— expressed preference of place and people, as well as by reason of all your works, as ours; ... and in the evening of life would have deemed it a happy privilege to have watched over and solaced your declining years ....

You came to this straggling flock at a time when we required the services of a true missionary, a man of zeal, piety, courage and business administration, and your pastorate has disclosed all these-qualities in an extra- ordinary degree. Not only have you been at all times ready to bring to your people the consolations of religion, but by your great exertion, in season and out of season, to make known and respected the teachings of that Church to which we have the signal happiness to belong, by your fervent, learned, eloquent and persistent exhortation to the practice of virtue, by your zeal and charity in correcting and reproving "in all patience and doctrine" whenever correction or reproof were necessary, by the care you have always bestowed upon the instruction of the little ones, whom you regarded as the hope of the future, by your tender solicitude for the unfortunate of society, and, above all, by