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Of this is no doubt; that the kettle and the cricket, as: one and the
sank: trio merit, and by some power of am ihja iiiation best known to
themselves, sent each his fireside ‘:ong of comfort streaming Into a ray
of t"ie can die that, shone out through the window, and a long way
down tlit: htiie. And this light, bursting on a certain person, who,
on the instant, aporo^chcd towards it through (.lie gloom, expressed
the whole thing f:o him literally in a twinkling, and eried, "Welcome
home, old l el low! welcome ho:nef my boy!”
This end attained, the kettle, being dead beat, boiled over, anil was
taken ojT the f:re.— C harles D ickens,

WHAT IS A MINORITY?

W H A T is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have
'■ l:cii in a minority. There is not a social, political, or relig­
ious privilege that you enjoy to-day that was not bought for
you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It
h the minority that have vindicated humanity in every struggle. Tt is
a minority that have stood in the van of every moral confix;, and
achieved all that is noble in Uiu history of the world. You -will find
that each generation ha.-; been always busy in gathering up' the scat­
tered ?.shes of the martyred heroes of the past, to deposit them in the
golden urn of a nation’s history, Look at Scotland, where they are
e;cd ing mnmmienl.s to whom?— to the Covenanters. Ah, flny were
in a minority, Read their history, if you can, without the blood
tingling to the tips of your fingers. These wrere in the minority, that,
11 trough blood, and tears, and booting?- and scourging*— dying the
waters with iheir blood, and staining the heather with their gore—
fought the glorious biittle of religious freedom.
Minority! if a man stands for the right, though the right be on the
scaffold, while the wrong si vs in the seat of government ; if he stands
for the right, though he cat, with the right and truth, a wretched
eru^i; if he walk with obloquy and scorn in the by-knes and streets,