Political activity over there is half-strangled at this moment by the secular arm of religion; here it doesn't even impede the circulation! Conceive any Church, or the united Churches, for the matter of that, asking a place in the conduct of the common schools of Ontario! How would the people take it?
With anger, or with laughter, but certainly with sense.

'By all mean let the ministers serve education on the School Boards,' they would say, 'by election like other people'-- an opportunity, by the way, which has just been offered to me.

I'm nominated for East Elgin in place of Leverett, the tanner, who is leaving the town.

I shall do my best to get in, too; there are several matters that want seeing to over there.

The girls' playground, for one thing, is practically under water in the spring." "You should get in without the least difficulty.