d!

It is that these men builded better than they knew, because they did
with all their heart and all their soul the best thing that they knew.
They loved Christ and feared God, and on Christmas day did their best to
express the love and the fear. And King James and Cadenet,--did they
love Christ and fear God? I do not know. But I do not believe, nor do
you, that the masque of the one, or the embassy of the other, expressed
the love, or the hope, or the faith of either!

So it was that John Carver and his men, trying to avoid the celebration
of the day, built better than they knew indeed, and, in their faith,
laid a corner-stone for an empire.

And James and Cadenet trying to serve themselves--forgetful of the
spirit of the day, as they pretended to honor it--were so successful
that they destroyed a dynasty.

There is moral enough for our truer Christmas holidays as 1867 leads in
the new-born sister.

Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son.

ROBERTS BROTHERS'

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