A GOOD EXAMPLE.
(To run Ewen or run " SPncTA7s3.yI Ste,—Teachers of disloyalty have loud voices. They shout in the street and grumble in the Preas, and think that they carry weight in proportion to noise. This being so, our litany may well be " that we should be deliver.' from traitors, evil men and fools, in Church and State and family life." But there is another skis which works as leaven, uaobtrusively and relentlessly. I have jest been witness of a significant and impressive little ceremony in front of Buckingham Palace. The King'x eltestel had mounted. The audience consisted of the Guard's sentries, too police constables, and myself. A working man on some errant which took him that way wns the high priest of the cerentoriv. Floating over the Palace was (Ito Royal Standard. As Ilia work- man passed he stopped to !oak -at it. Then he renewed his pip. and hie hat, and reverently crossed himself lie then replaced his hat and his pipe, and passed on to his work. What thoeghit were in his mind we can only guess, but his action left his smn'l audience nil the better for example. Men like this will have to be counted with if we should ever come to our Pass of Thermopylae;
and there are not a few.—I am, Sir, dr., U. B.
[It is en unfortunate fact that such ceremonial good manner, are much more common abroad than in Great Britain. Yet in the ideal Democracy all the symbols of authority would maul-elle command reverence. In the ideal Democracy. again, the dignity of the human person would If course he' recognized. Civility would not be confused with servility. At present masses of pe - sena pans through the education provided by the State apparently believing that the right way to display a proper independence is to be rude!—Ea. Spectator.]
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