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Excerpt from Annual Address of the Bishop of Louisiana, to the Council of the Diocese, 1873
We never meet in Council that we have not cause to lament the absence of some who have assembled with us before. They are 'gone who once sustained us with their presence, and their counsel - some have transferred their homes and are serving the church elsewhere - some have fainted by the way - others have been released from the burden of the ?esh and have been admitted within the veil._ They have bequeathed to us the fruits of their faith and patience, and labor in the work of the Lord. We accept the trust, clasping to our bosom the precious hope, that when death comes, it may arrest us in the midst of our labors, ardently engaged in our Master's work, longing not from exhausted zeal, but exhausted strength, for the rest which remaineth for the people of God.
Before we venture into the future which still remains to tax our fidelity, it becomes our duty to pause and review the labors of the past year.
On the Sunday after the last Council, being the second. Sunday after Easter, I preached and admitted to the Priesthood, the Rev. John Henry Weddell, B. A. Present the Rev. Alexander Marks and Rev. James Philson; the former, presenting the candidate, and both uniting in the laying on of hands.
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