Certainly I am not blind to the faults of that discipline. Certainly I do not wish it to remain in possession of the field forever, or too long. But as a stage and a discipline, and as means for enabling that poor inattentive and immoral creature, man, to love and appropriate and make part of his being divine ideas, on which he could not otherwise have laid or kept hold, the discipline of Puritanism has been invaluable; and the more I read history, the more I see of mankind, the more I recognize its value.

Well, then, you are not merely a multitude of fifty millions; you are fifty millions sprung from this excellent Germanic stock, having passed through this excellent Puritan discipline, and set in this enviable and unbounded country. Even supposing, therefore, that by the necessity of things your majority must in the present stage of the world probably be unsound, what a remnant, I say--what an incomparable, all-transforming remnant-you may fairly hope with your numbers, if things go happily, to have!

CHARLES PHILIPPE BEAUBIEN

CANADA AND PEACE

Charles Philippe Beaubien is a prominent business man of Canada. He was born in Montreal in 1870, called to the bar in 1894, and became a member of the senate in 1915. The following address was delivered at the dinner given by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in honor of the delegates of the InterParliamentary Union, at the Waldorf-Astoria, in 1925.

MR. CHAIRMAN, GENTLEMEN TRUSTEES OF THE CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:-I welcome this opportunity of expressing the heartfelt thanks of the Canadian delegates for this sumptuous reception and for so many kindnesses received at the hands of the Carnegie Endowment. I appreciate your invitation the more, Mr. Chairman, that in this love feast Canada's voice could hardly be silent. For well over a century, our nations have held up to mankind the inspiring spectacle of continuous, peaceful and cordial relations. We have given the term "boundary" a new significance. For most other countries, the world over, the boundary is the danger line; behind it, even now, in some instances, can be spied the deadly glitter of bayonets. It was left to us to make of it a line that unites two countries. Were it not for this fact and the desire to express Canadian gratitude to you, Mr. Chairman, and to your co-trustees, I would have been quite satisfied to silently approve all that Sir Robert Horne has said to-night so eloquently, as he always does. Canada, a sister-nation of Great Britain, fully autonomous, remaining within the British Empire freely and solely by the love of the British flag, can, without hesitation, subscribe to every word uttered so happily by Sir Robert a few moments ago.

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liamentary Conference at Washington. A short time ago, I witnessed one of these great pilgrimages held at Lourdes, the

famous shrine of France. There, before the church, stood thirty, forty, probably fifty thousand people hailing from the four corners of the earth. They were crowded on the front steps of the chapel, on the hillside close by, and spread in a huge semicircle before the church. Within the semicircle, pressing close to the throngs, lay a line of stretchers, bearing every form of human deformity and disease-a sight harrowing to the heart. Then, in the midst of the open space, a priest lifted his voice in prayer. "Oh, God, he whom Thou loveth suffers." And the immense throng repeated with fervor; "Oh, God, he whom Thou loveth suffers." And the priest continued; "Oh, God, gaze upon him and he shall be cured." The thundering voice of the assistants, with increased fervor, took up the appeal. And so continued the prayers of the Officient, echoed by the huge assembly with ever increasing intensity. The scene was unsurpassingly moving-it gripped my heart and stirred me to tears. The poor cripples stretching out their arms in supreme desperate appeal, the priest's clear voice, and its echo in thousands of breasts, all that has left with me a stirring souvenir that moves me still.

During the four days of our Conference at Washington, in this spacious chamber of the Congress, delegates from practically all nations of the world have brought, in turn, to the Speakers' tribune, an earnest, and impassionate appeal to human reason, to human kindness, to banish war forever. Like the invocation of the priest at Lourdes, each appeal had a deep echo in the hearts of the audience. Back of each speaker I could see, heaped by the curse of mankind, armies of livid dead; behind them, innumerable wounded still red with blood; and, farther back, again still more numerous stood the mothers, widows and orphans, black in their mourning garments. And so it was for each nation. Hélas! we have left, many of my colleagues and I, tortured and torn between hope and despair. Shall these prayers be heard? Shall Washington, like Lourdes, give us a miracle? No one knows, but from this pilgrimage to the shrine of Peace, let everyone take back to his land the resolve to preach the holy crusade of Peace, the holy crusade

of brotherly love. Such a resolve is not easy to follow. But though it may be difficult and trying to stand in the way of public opinion, if needs be, let us do it courageously and to fortify our hearts, let us repeat the immortal verses of a great poet:

To every man there openeth

A Way, and Ways, and the Way.

And the High Soul climbs the High Way,
And the Low Soul gropes the Low,

And in between, on the misty flats,
The rest drift to and fro.

But to every man there openeth
A High Way, and a Low.
And every man decideth

THE WAY HIS SOUL SHALL GO.

SIR ROBERT LAIRD BORDEN

WALK, AND NOT FAINT

A speech at the annual meeting of the British and Foreign Bible Society, in Queen's Hall, London, England, May 2, 1917. Other speeches by Sir Robert Borden are to be found in Volumes I and XII, where there is also a brief biographical note.

I KNOW that you must all very deeply regret-but no one so much as myself-the inability of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to be here this morning to address you. I was spoken to late last evening, and, knowing the tremendous engagements and duties which he is called upon to discharge in these times of stress and urgency, I could not refuse the request he made of me to come here and speak, however inadequately and unworthily, in his stead. I have not come here with any set address. I have come with hardly any notes, so I must speak to you from my heart to-day in appreciation of the great work which this Society has done, not only in this Mother-country and in the oversea Dominions, but throughout the world; a work the importance of which it is perhaps difficult for us to estimate; a work which I hope will be even more splendid and more worthy in the future than it has been in the past.

I am very glad indeed to know that the Dominion which I have the honor to represent has contributed something to the great cause which this Society serves. In days gone by we may have leaned upon you in the Motherland for that purpose; but in this, as in other respects, the young giant beyond the seas has learned to know his strength and to put that great and constantly increasing strength to a high purpose.

We are met under the shadow of events so great that probably we who are passing through them do not realize their