The age-herald., 1901-02-24

ing, and hand in hand they shall walk the glorious battlements in the fortress of joy, far above all the rustic cackle con corning the sparrow-hawks ill-bred in the bone, ill-born in the soul, mere creatures of prey that shall pass with the hour.
 o splendid glory of every Enid when ste shall come to the glory of her own by her own for her own.
 "She ceased a made her 1.-the arm
 round his i.. ek
 Tighten, and then drew back, and let
 her eyes Speak for her, glowing on him like a \ brides On her new lord, her own, the first of
 menP'
 Vain babbler of babblement is he who has known no joy like that Unworthy is he to contend for the rights of the blessed Enids of the world, since he has never known a loved woman's caress! Yet it is noble to adore and hold holy her of the adoration. For there is that about the maiden's blush which vanishes at mans touch as surely as the frost-kiss kills the gentle flower of the morning, and that is the pricelessly pure quality of maidcnhood's outward semblance held in reverence by the angels. It is too easily dissipated, and when gone all the pray CTS of the saints and the powers of men may not restore it!
 When that mighty prince in the faith in days of old drew about the threat enei maiden the awful circle of his holy church, which even king might not en- ter, he gave voice to the cry of the worlds great heart for the young and fair and in this Lenten Sunday there are hundred million Julies, and hundred million Richilieus to defend them
 Mark where she stands Around her, the young maiden, all mankind draws an aw- ifnl circle militant to aid the spiritual force O, the church, and none shall touch tine hem of her spotless garment and live to tell he touched it. She is supreme, the maiden, the empress of every heart, the pride of every soul. Swaying and bending and laughing and loving, she lives the incarnation of mans pride, worship, love, adoration, and whoso would stretch forth hand to hold her in un- holy grasp, it is written he shall perish.
 The world worships her next to God, and for her all honorable men would hold their lives cheap. Sheis the promise of the worlds peopling and the worlds redemption in the plan of mankind s salvation, and all the years find full fruition in her white soul and all the world rests it's hopes in her glad after whilcs.
 From her dancing feet to her nodding head she is perfect, and even as she is fair to behold so also is she fair In spirit. If all the worlds destiny rested upon one noble soul God would summon her to bear the worlds burden, she be- ing pure of heart and unspotted from wrongt ulness.
 Thus we have the Enids, those whom the sparrow-hawks of self-seeking would claim as their own, but whom all man. kind that is worthy stands to defend. The snarrow-hawks are ready to hate the maidens, to wrong them, to betray their faith, but there is a power that is royal beyond the sceptre of the worlds sin and vilainy, and that power i, loyal to the little women of this life, that band of radiant angels of the world upon whom rests all the future that is not of sin and of he'll
 Behold, I dream a dream of good, And mingle all the world with thee" Poor indeed and athirst far from the fountain of true life is he or she who knows not some fair young soul whom to mingle with every dream of good and t1,a .f,tA Enid, the maidens. Geraint, the spar row-hawk. the, rustic caekle of every bourg, these are types and symbols fa- J