The age-herald., 1901-11-10

tone, ill-born in the scul mere creatures of prey that shall pass in the hour.
 O splendid glory of every Enid when she shall come to the glory of her own by her own for her own
 ''she ceased, and mede her 1.-the arm round his neck
 | Tighten, and then drew back, and let i her eyes
 | Speak for her, glowing on him like a brides
 On her new lord. her own, the first of menr'
 | Vain babbler of babblement is he who has known no joy like thatl Unworthy is he to contend for the rights of the Blessed Enids of the world. since he has never known a loved womans 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 maidenhood's outward semblance held in reverence by the angels It is too easily dissipated. and when gone all the pray
 
 may not restore it!
 When that mighty prince of the faith in days of old drew about the threat ened 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 Sunday there are hundred million Julies, and a hundred million Richilieus to defend them.
 Mark where she stards! Around her, the young maiden, all mankind draws an aw- ful circle. militant to aid the spiritual force Of the church, cnd none shall touch the 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, wor- ship, love, adoration, and whoso would stretch forth a hand to hold her in un- holy grasp, 1t is written he shall perish.
 The world worships her next to God. and for her all honorable men would hold their lives cheap. She is the prom lse of the worlds peopling and the worlds redemption in the plan of manlxind's salvation, and all the years find full fruition in her white soul and all the world rests its hope in her glad after whiles.
 From Her dancing feet to her noddtng 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 soud God would summon her to bear the worlds burden, she be- ing pure of heart and unspotted from wrongfulness
 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 defnd .
 The sparrow- 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 villiany, and that power is 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 hell.
 Behold, dream dream of good, Ard 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 the spirit of every purpose not of self. Enid, the maidens. Geraint, the spar row-hawk, the rustic caclkle of every bourg. these are types and symbols fa- miliar enough in all our lives, and there fore this is not the time or place, nor this world-lover the chronicler to make the applications which occur to everyone having eyes to see. ears to hear. heart