4 PASTEUR AND AFTER PASTEUR 



the whole course of his life. Henceforth, his 

 genius was always with him. 



But they who read of these early years, in 

 M. Vallery Radot's beautiful Vie de Pasteur, are 

 apt to forget lectures and examinations, and to be 

 thinking of the home-life at Arbois. Work hard, 

 honour your country ; put spiritual things above 

 material, and other people before yourself; have 

 courage, have patience : these were the precepts 

 and the practice of the home-life. It took itself 

 seriously : it appealed to him not for sentiment, 

 but. for grave reverence. It was poor, but not in 

 the pinch of poverty ; it was a life of work, but of 

 skilled work ; it had its high traditions, its old family 

 names, its memories of the Army and of the 

 Emperor, its loyalty to the Catholic Faith : it had its 

 times of dullness and disheartenment. Here was 

 a home that needed not only love but help, and was 

 longing for the happiness of a great success, to make 

 it feel young again. 



His letters, from Besan^on, seventy-five years 

 ago, are more formal than the letters which we now 

 get from youth : more solemn, more carefully 

 worded. " Work : love one another," he writes to 

 his little sisters. " Once you have got into the way 

 of working, you cannot live without it. Besides, 

 everything in this world depends on it. ... If 

 your resolve be strong, your task, whatever it may 



