But I 'd LIKE to do it . I 'd like to call a meeting of the Ladies Aid and W.M.S. and the Girls Sewing Society , and include in the audience all and any Methodists who have been criticizing the Merediths -- although I do think if we Presbyterians stopped criticizing and excusing we would find that other denominations would trouble themselves very little about our manse folks . I would say to them , ` Dear Christian friends ' -- with marked emphasis on ` Christian ' -- I have something to say to you and I want to say it good and hard , that you may take it home and repeat it to your families . You Methodists need not pity us , and we Presbyterians need not pity ourselves . We are not going to do it any more . And we are going to say , boldly and truthfully , to all critics and sympathizers , ` We are PROUD of our minister and his family . Mr. Meredith is the best preacher Glen St. Mary church ever had . Moreover , he is a sincere , earnest teacher of truth and Christian charity . He is a faithful friend , a judicious pastor in all essentials , and a refined , scholarly , well-bred man . His family are worthy of him . Gerald Meredith is the cleverest pupil in the Glen school , and Mr. Hazard says that he is destined to a brilliant career . He is a manly , honourable , truthful little fellow . Faith Meredith is a beauty , and as inspiring and original as she is beautiful . There is nothing commonplace about her . All the other girls in the Glen put together have n't the vim , and wit , and joyousness and ` spunk ' she has . She has not an enemy in the world . Every one who knows her loves her . Of how many , children or grown-ups , can that be said ? Una Meredith is sweetness personified . She will make a most lovable woman .
Carl Meredith , with his love for ants and frogs and spiders , will some day be a naturalist whom all Canada -- nay , all the world , will delight XXXXX honour .
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