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 rushed head." Mr. Stead, again, illustrated in his own life the paradoxical saying, 'The Child is father to the Man.' When but six years old, he had fought a boy of twelve ; as the latter was seen peeping at a girl who was tying one of her garters with her leg placed on a culvert. And as Mr. Stead grew up, he grew to be the noble champion of purity, truth and freedom. You, young men, should cultivate the like spirit of advocating, and enforcing pure sentiments. To this end, you should form three wholesome habits ; constant and reverent study of pure ideals; constant and active fellowship with good men ; constant and prayerful supplication to God. your ideas of woman until you come to realise that benevolence, not drudgery, is incarnate in her. You should learn never to tolerate the humiliation, the degradation, of woman, in what-ever forma it be. Wherever there is an opportunity, you should be all too prompt to help or serve your mother's sex. Go forth, clothed in your own purity; and you