take it home and repeat it to your families. You Methodists need
not pity us, and we Presbyterians need not pity ourselves. We
are not going to do it any more. And we are going to say, boldly
and truthfully, to all critics and sympathizers, 'We are PROUD of
our minister and his family. Mr. Meredith is the best preacher
Glen St. Mary church ever had. Moreover, he is a sincere,
earnest teacher of truth and Christian charity. He is a faithful
friend, a judicious pastor in all essentials, and a refined,
scholarly, well-bred man. His family are worthy of him. Gerald
Meredith is the cleverest pupil in the Glen school, and Mr.
Hazard says that he is destined to a brilliant career. He is a
manly, honourable, truthful little fellow. Faith Meredith is a
beauty, and as inspiring and original as she is beautiful. There
is nothing commonplace about her. All the other girls in the
Glen put together haven't the vim, and wit, and joyousness and
'spunk' she has. She has not an enemy in the world. Every one
who knows her loves her. Of how many, children or grown-ups, can
that be said? Una Meredith is sweetness personified. She will
make a most lovable woman. Carl Meredith, with his love for ants
and frogs and spiders, will some day be a naturalist whom all
Canada--nay, all the world, will delight to honour. Do you know
of any other family in the Glen, or out of it, of whom all these
things can be said? Away with shamefaced excuses and apologies.
We REJOICE in our minister and his splendid boys and girls!"

Anne stopped, partly because she was out of breath after her
vehement speech and partly because she could not trust herself to
speak further in view of Miss Cornelia's face. That good lady was
staring helplessly at Anne, apparently engulfed in billows of new
ideas. But she came up with a gasp and struck out for shore