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He does not mention it, but most of that eager
greeting was for himself—it having been an-
nounced that he was on that boat, setting out
on a voyage around the world, to free himself
from debt.

July 18. Island of Mackinac. Masonry walls with tow-
ers of Middle Ages pattern, an inheritance from French
early days, no doubt.

At St. Paul, July 24. Lectured both here and at Min-
neapolis.

Winnipeg, Manitoba. Read in Winnipeg second night.

July 28, Sunday morning. An hour's talk with a bright
girl—part Indian, with French name—correspondent of
Toronto Globe. Has been a factor}7' girl. Was president of
a combine of 500 working girls who appealed to the elec-
tric car company for a Sunday car service; the year before
that the pulpits had pulled in 5000 majority against it;
the 500 girls reduced that to 750 majority two years ago.
The pulpit got the next struggle put off three years. It
occurs a year hence; then the thing will be carried the
other way.

Toronto is 12 miles long, one way, within the city
limits; the poor live at one end and work at the other—
and not a car on Sunday. These families are as exiled as
if the Atlantic flowed between them, but as long as God
and the clergy are gratified what of it.

Standards. There are no standards—of taste in wine,
cigars, poetry, prose, etc. Each man's own taste is the
standard and a majority vote cannot decide for him or
in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own
standard.

Sunday on the Continent is a blessing. In England and
America it is a curse and certainly ought to be abol-

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