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vision, the prayer, the hope, that went so high and far, 

 may find answer in visible forms of power even beyond 

 the early dream. 



Consequences are not in one line alone, but in many 

 lines. When a living thought is projected into the ideal, 

 we cannot trace its course, nor forsee its end. God's 

 ways are on mighty orbits, and their real tending is often 

 lost to human sight; but the times appointed" will 

 arrive, and the end crown the work. One thing we may be 

 sure of : all these vicissitudes of life, all these toils and 

 struggles, these seeming defeats as well as seeming vic- 

 tories, are overruled for some final good for man — and 

 for every man who has borne himself worthily in them. 



So we greet in spirit today him who three centuries 

 ago saw in visions of his soul what for man could be 

 wrought on these treasured shores. The work is going 

 on — but by other hands ; the dream is coming true — but 

 to other eyes. The thought is his ; and the fulfilment, 

 though different, is of his beginning. 



As a Contemporary Saw It 



Marc Lescarbot, who came out in May, 1606, to visit 

 de Monts' settlement with Jean de Biencourt, Seigneur 

 de Poutrincourt, and who afterward wrote the History 

 of New France, the best account next to Champlain's we 

 have of de Monts' undertaking and of Acadia at that 

 time, begins his History: ''I have to tell in this book 

 of the most courageous undertaking, and the least aided 

 and assisted, that we of France have made to occupy 

 the new lands beyond the Ocean. The Sieur de Monts, 

 called in his own name Pierre du Gua, a man of noble 

 family in Saintonge, is its chief subject. He, having a 

 heart moved to high enterprise, and seeing France in 

 repose through the peace happily concluded at Vervins, 

 proposed to the King. . . ." 



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