I shall not pretend that all our volunteers, from first to last, had reached the saintly state of soul of their inexorable judge. As a rule poor mortals do not jump, by a single effort, up to that degree of Christian perfection shining with the great virtues of humility, charity, justice--by words and deeds. We must not suppose that many of our heroic volunteers had deserved, like their trusted friend and admirer, Mr. Bourassa, to be canonized during their life time. That some of them, whose past was perhaps not a very strong recommendation, have enlisted with the laudable purpose to rehabilitate themselves in their own self-estimation and in that of their countrymen, it is very likely. Far from blaming them for so doing, we must congratulate them and encourage them to persevere in the glorious task which will entitle them to the everlasting gratitude of their country. Such has been the case in the armies of all nations for many centuries past. Fortunately, far better and much more authorized judges of the devotion, courage and patriotism of the volunteers of the great Canadian army, as well as of the cause for the triumph of which they have offered, and in so many cases, given their lives, were easily found. They wrote and spoke with no uncertain voice. In a letter approving the publication of a very interesting pamphlet, entitled:--"_War controversy between Catholics_"--"_La controverse de guerre entre Catholiques_,"--His Eminence Cardinal Begin, Archbishop of Quebec, said:-- "_Attentively read, as it deserves to be, this work will help to understand and to love to the limit of devotion, (jusqu'au devouement) the beauty and the sovereign importance of the great cause--the protection of the world threatened by Germanism--for which our soldiers are so valiantly fighting together with those of England, France and Belgium._ "_I pray God to bless those brave warriors and to grant peace to the Christian world by the reestablishment of Justice and Right._" What an encouraging contrast! On the one hand, a publicist, with the fury of its resounding organs, so widely used, vowing to eternal damnation, _the armed scoundrelism which Canada is_ forging, with conditions inferior to Teutonic and Turkish barbarism, considering that it has reached the lowest depth of "_a degradation unparalleled in any civilized country_." On the other, the Head of the Catholic Church in Canada, Cardinal Begin, blessing in the name of God Almighty _our brave warriors who fight so valiantly with those of England, France and Belgium_, because _they love with true devotion the beauty and the sovereign importance of the great cause_ to the triumph of which they sacrifice _their lives--the protection of the world threatened by Germanism_.