. In old Quebec and other sketches. that would no longer be divine,because divorced from the idea of good, andwould soon end in making men the slaves ofcircumstances, and the bondsmen of the brutesof the forest. Surely the old Pagans had anobler ideal than this of our modern manhood, virtus, was then too exclusivelyseen in the strong arm and brave heart, atleast these are the ground of all other excel-lencies in man ; and a good Christian can nomore be a coward and a materialist than hecan be a drunkard and a thief. Women retaintheir instinctive sense of the truth of thismatter, a
. In old Quebec and other sketches. that would no longer be divine,because divorced from the idea of good, andwould soon end in making men the slaves ofcircumstances, and the bondsmen of the brutesof the forest. Surely the old Pagans had anobler ideal than this of our modern manhood, virtus, was then too exclusivelyseen in the strong arm and brave heart, atleast these are the ground of all other excel-lencies in man ; and a good Christian can nomore be a coward and a materialist than hecan be a drunkard and a thief. Women retaintheir instinctive sense of the truth of thismatter, and we hold that the qualities in manwhich a true woman admires are those whichGod and nature intended him to have. War has its horrors, so have railways andevery noble and useful enterprise, just becausesuch enterprises are a new conflict with evil,and evil fighteth a hard fight, and exacts toils,and groans, and blood before it quits its to redeem the world from evil is mansmission here, and never is evil more gloriously I. D Tv 3 ^ O <0 <C AND OTHER SKETCHES. 138 defeated than when armed nations rise in-dignant against incarnate wrong that hasgathered head, sweep away the obstacles tothe worlds progress, and demean themselvesthe while as consecrated servants of life andtruth. YIIITHE CHARMS OF BERMUDA. A glance at the map shows that the Ber-muda Islands lie southward and eastward ofthe Gulf Stream, and that they are intersectedby the thirty-second parallel of North latitudeand the sixty-fourth meridian of West longi-tude. There is more than the romance of thetropics and the seductive lure of perpetualsummer about the Bermudas, and the WestIndia Islands generally, which lift not only their fronded palms in air but the crossof St. George as well. There is trade, whichCanada might easily cultivate. The enterpriseof the Quebec Company, and of thePickford & Black Company, of Halifax , has Ijrought these islands within easy accessto Canadians, and
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