hich fills a most
valuable purpose on the shore, is general consultant for the coast in
matters of engineering, as well as being the Government surveyor for
his district. He is also chief musician for the church, having fitted
himself for both those latter posts in his "spare time." The
inspiration which his life has been is in itself an education to many
of us--a reflex result which is the really highest value of all life.

As each transferred individual has come back North for service, desire
has at once manifested itself for similar privileges in young people
who had not previously shown even interest enough to attend our winter
night schools. This is the best evidence that inroads are being made
into that natural apathy which is content with mediocrity or even
inferiority. This is everywhere the world's most subtle enemy. Even if
selfishness or envy has been the motive, the fact remains that they
have often kindled that discontent with the past which Charles
Kingsley preached as necessary to all progress. Nowhere could the
pathology of the matter be more easily traced than in these concrete
examples carrying the infection which could come from no other quarter
into our isolation. It has been in very humble life an example of the
return of the "Yankee to the Court of King Arthur."

There was a time when Lord Haldane proposed that every English child,
who in the Board schools had proved his ability to profit by it,
should be given a college or university education at the expense of
the State--as a remunerative outlay for the nation. This proposal was
turned down as being too costly, though the expenditure for a single
day's running of this war would have gone a long way to provide such
a fund. We now know that it can be done and must be done as a sign
manual of real freedom, which is not the leaving of parents or
forbears, incompetent for any reason, free to damn their country with
a stream of stunted intellects.

America has already honoured herself forever by being a pioneer in
this movement for the higher education of the people. Religion surely
need not fear mental enlightenment. The dangers of life lie in
ignorance, and after all is not true religion a thing of the intellect
as well as of the heart? Can that really be inculcated in "two periods
of forty minutes each week devoted to sectarian teaching," which was
one of the concessions demanded of us in our fight for a free public
or common school at St. Anthon