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He did not envy him a bit of the congratulations. They were a part of Father Broidy's triumph, too. It was small wonder that the Dean whispered to the Bishop on the way back to the rectory: "You will have to put Broidy at the top of the list now. He has surely won his spurs to-day."
To-day it is to be consecrated, the cap-stone is to be set on Father Broidy's Arch of Triumph and the real life of Alta parish to begin. "I thought you had but sixteen families here," said the Bishop as he watched the crowd stream into the church. "There were but eighteen, Bishop," the young priest answered, with a happy smile that had considerable self-satisfaction in it.
See the church, house and school, and built out of what? That is Father Broidy's work and Father Broidy's triumph, but we are glad of it. No man has made such a record in our Diocese before. What have we others done by the side of his extraordinary effort? Yet we are not jealous. We know well the good qualities of soul and body in our young friend, and God bless him.
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