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ines of “ Fox’s Book of Martyrs,” as all belong- 
ing in the same catalogue — people who are to be 
admired and revered, but not at all to be envied. 
I have no objection to this classification, but I 
would remind those who make it that nature 
never forgets to put in her compensations. Who 
would not be almost willing to be burned at the 
stake to know that sublime love and faith that 
can make pain a joy, because borne for the 
Being one adores ? Who would not be glad 
to be brought, for a time at least, face to face 
with the 'unconquered wilderness, to know they 
possess the power to subjugate it? 
Frontier life has its hardships, and they are 
neither fewer nor more easy to be borne than has 
been pictured, but their shadows are interwoven 
with many lights; and one of the brightest is the 
knowledge gained of one’s own resources. 
Nothing is more gratifying to a person than to 
know he has met difficulties and conquered them, 
until, like Alexander of old, conquest has become 
a habit ; and he would court, rather than shun, 
obstacles, and weep, were there no more to 
conquer. 
This knowledge is a reward for frontier life by 
no means to be lightly valued, for, to feel equal 
to an emergency, is to convert it from a terror to 
a delight. 
That the storm which threatened them would 
