the Kings of the earth are going to bring their glory into it. Of its beauty and dominion and power there can be no end. QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER FOUR 1. Prove that Paul had the world in his eye. 2. Where is the island of Lilliput? Why does the author mention it? 3. Look in the dictionary for the words Goth and Hun. What do you find? 4. Make a list of the heroes mentioned and divide them into two groups. What different title do you choose for each group? 5. Explain the words-pagan, pigmy, Tartar, Mongol. 6. What three difficult things did Ulfilas accomplish? 7. In what ways was Columba a soldier? 8. Why is English history different because Augustine went to England? 9. What happened because St. Patrick carried Ireland in his eye? 10. Why was Winfried called Boniface? How did he earn the name? From The Arsenal at Springfield Were half the power that fills the world with terror, The warrior's name would be a name abhorred; Down the dark future, through long generations, I hear once more the voice of Christ say, "Peace!" Peace!-and no longer from its brazen portals The holy melodies of love arise. Henry W. Longfellow B Soldiers of Yesterday V. Y yesterday I mean the nineteenth century. It has been called "the wonderful century" and that is a good name for it. It was wonderful in many ways and for many reasons, and one of the reasons is the remarkable record of heroic deeds which was made by the soldiers of the Prince. They went everywhere. It was the first century in which it was possible to travel swiftly and with ease. There was no part of the whole world which was not visited by the Prince's soldiers in the wonderful century. It was the first time in the history of the world when the doors were all open. At the beginning of the century many doors were closed. They were locked and barred and nobody could get in. But when the century closed, every door was open. The Prince's soldiers had knocked so long and so patiently that every door had swung on its hinges, and there was no continent or island into which they could not go. The Prince one day said to his soldiers: "Knock and it shall be opened unto you." His promise was marvelously fulfilled yesterday. The world has now become one big house, and we can pass from one room to another without delay. The soldiers of the Prince had a lot to do with bringing this to pass. Some people think that to find anything really ex citing you must go back thousands of years. They imagine that all the heroes died long ago. Every boy likes to read of Hercules, the most famous hero of the ancient world. According to report he did the most amazing things. He strangled a lion with his own hands, he killed a monster that had nine heads, he caught a stag with nine antlers and brazen feet, he caught a boar in a net and carried him for miles to a city, he cleaned the stables of the king of Elis, he fetched the golden apples of the Hesperides, and brought Cerberus from the lower world. These are only a few of the extraordinary things he is reported to have done. But the soldiers of the Prince have done things fully as remarkable and far more useful, and they did many of them yesterday. If is often supposed that if you want to read about things which will make your heart jump you must read books about war. In war men often show wonderful daring, it is true, and we cannot read of these deeds without feeling a thrill in the blood, but books about the soldiers of the Prince are just as exciting as war books, and the courage of the Prince's soldiers is not a bit less than the heroism of the soldiers of Mars. It was only day before yesterday that North America was explored. It was a wild and unknown continent, filled with dangerous beasts and dangerous men. But soldiers of the Prince plunged into the great forests, afraid neither of the beasts nor the men, and in order to find out how America came to be known to the world you must read where three soldiers went and what they did. I shall mention just one of them-Jean de Brebeuf-a man who |