whether her garb is not fine enough or too fine, her possessions too
small or too large, her influence too weak or opposition to it too
strong? How much discussion is devoted to the question, what phrases
must be repeated, what forms adopted, to pass the janitor who guards her
doors! As has been truly said, the really useful reform for all of us
would be that each should do his appointed work at least ten per cent.
better than he has done it before. The work to be done should be the
special work assigned to each and for which each is best fitted. We long
for peace, but in settling the constitution of a League of Nations it
will be the jurist not the churchman who will help us. In aiming at
political or industrial peace the practical good sense of the
statesman, the employer, and the workman will best point out what is
wanted; the Church, as such, is better out of the way in framing
legislation. But suppose even that we establish securely international
and political, industrial and social peace, is that peace all we need?
Shall we not still in youth be restless, anxious about the future of our
own lives and the lives of those nearest to us, unsettled by ambitions
for what we may not attain, disappointed at the little progress we make;
restless all through life, disturbed by thoughts of what we desire but
cannot have; restless, most of all, in age, knowing that attainment is
no longer possible, and, if we have attained anything, feeling how
little it is worth? Who will take for his proper sphere to show the way
to a peace which may pass the understanding of those who, in
disappointment and loss and vain endeavour, which will go on even if the
dreams of national and social progress and improvement are realised, and
alike in failure or success, will need that peace more and more as long
as the life of man lasts? Sometimes we see among those round us calm
faces the living "index of a mind" at peace, which make us feel that
there are those working in our midst in whom that peace exists. Let her
tell the way to that and the answer would be, "There is nothing wrong