The Modern Young Englishman

Perhaps it may be said that, on the whole, our young men to-ilay are not tBueb botter tlian tlicy have been at auy past time. Unquesüonably thpy have Lheir fanlte, their aftectalions. Uut in iomc rospects thoy do indieata a material improvcment upon their predeecssors. [f they are often as delieiont in ideas and ia genorally intelloctual tastcs, thcy pay much more attention to the relinemcnts nul amenitics of life. They do not parade coavseness or gros.sness in their mannor or in their eonvérsaiion, as fonncrlyit was csteomed the mark of an esprit förtyto do. Thoy have, in a word, L'ar less taan suspieion of what has beon Balled "British brutality" about them rhey conduet themslves unitormly more liko gentlemen and loss like rooms. Nor can it bc said (hat this írave bearing and speech has beon purshasod at any saerilice of manliness. I'ho yoimgEnglishman of lo-day proves bimsolf, whenever opportunity ocours, true to the best traditioas of English .■onrao and ondiirancc. ■■There is considerable said just uow coneerning libcralism in the ehur.eh.es," romakeil an official of a prominent church recently, "but I wisl it would exteml to the eolleetion plate. Thero are men in our church who are oonünually taU'ing about ministers being more liberal in their ideas of chrïstian privileges, but those men never think that Üiere is any reaaon tor liberahsm in money eontributions. Tliey want to slide along the religious plane into hèaven, but dó npt want to g've anyIhing to nntkf tho way easyforthe minister or poor brothera and sisters. y-JExchange.