THE CHALLENGE TO EVIL

possessed in mid-current, say " Yes " to the swirling waters, the antagonisms and laboHrs; enter into them with zest and boldness, just because they believe in progress and hâve glimpsed its goal. No one has challenged the " wrongs of man to man " with stemer voice than he ; or uttered more prophétie waming to the oppressor ; or poured such flood of scom upon the infideUty which, like a cancer of whose présence the victim is unaware, roots at the heart of modem society.

Do you think that it is a fine thing to grind cheap goods out of the hard labour of ill-paid boys ? And do you imagine that ail your Commerce Shows and Manufactures are anything at ail oompared with the bodies and soûls of thèse ?

Do you suppose I hâve not heard your talk about Morality and Religion and set it face to face in my soûl to thé instinct of one clean naked unashamed Man ?

Do you think that there ever was or could be Infidelity greater than this ? ^

If he is asked conceming the "Triumph of Civilization," he takes his note-book and opens its page at a sketch from life — clear-cut, poignant, a chose vue, an miadomed comment :

On the outskirts of a great city,

A Street of fàshionable mansions well withdrawn from ail the noise and bustle ;

And in the street — the only figure there — in the middle of the road, in the bitter wind,

Red-nosed, thin-shawled, with ankles bare and old boots,