THE SMILE OF A MINISTER.
HIS WAY WITH A DEPUTATION. Slowly and sadly men are learning that the warning given -of old time reCarding the putting of trust in princet lias its worth in democratic countries where princes are not. '"I never saw tho Hon. J. A. Millar before I went to him with that deputation," said a speaker at the conference of sawmill employees now being hold in Christ, church. "He smiled, and listened, and' nodded his head in assent to everytiling that was said. I watched him all the time, and went away fooling that we'd got right down to the bottom of his heart. Some time lias passed since, then, but although he promised to do all that ho could for us, ho hasn't done anything." That the Minister had had ample time to consider t.h« question put befcro him by tho deputation was understood .when the speaker mentioned that the interview referred 1 to had taken place early in November,
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1108, 22 April 1911, Page 4
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