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I r. , Ya#ee of South <aortrwn8rican Characteristics' [ of Vhe?Views of an Americjfin the South American R^Bblic?Life Runs Smoothly Tjijro, Without Rush or BustvCiimato Trvlns in Winter Jplitical Life of the Country. ttWimmmwii ^n3] ANTIAGO, Chile.?Chile is |Ejf_ Isll Chilean. It is also North ] I American. This mixed ex ?,1 pression unroiuea ou me gradually. I Lad looked for Latin or Spanish America, and found little of ^tat character except the language. Jjtalparaiso, as might be expected of a jfcreat seaport, is cosmopolitan. But 4?intiago, In the interior, could be Jliidged rightly to be characteristic of ^ country. It Is fully so, a capital J Which is essentially the heart of the nation, and here more than anywhere J else the impression has been made on j aie that Chile is Chilean. A confession of ignorance is due at the outset. I did not know that the c capital was a big, fine city of uOO.OOO inhabitants, a commercial centre as well as the scat of government. It is both. The plan of the town Is Spanish enough in its regularity of parallel and cross streets, plazas, the broad central avenue cf *lie Alameda, and bouses Which reproduce the dwellings of old Spain. But after puzzling over it for * while I discovered what is lacking. Transplanted Spain is not dominant ti* fhn If is subdued al anost into insignificance. This is parUcuir.rly so of the churches, which, aooreover, are less numerous than in athc-r South American cities. They Jtave not the Moorish adaptation that Is so pronounced in Lima, and they ksve little savor of ecclesiastic rnediewalLsci. Instead of being picturesque and half ruined, most of them are practical, modern looking structures. The un-Sf anish element is also seen In Santa Lucia, the craggy hill which Is Santiago's most precious possession, and which any city may well envy it. I snppose in th^ old days a thickurallcd fort may have crowned it, both for its strategic advantages and because the early Spaniards could not lielp placing a fort on a little hill if the church had not got ahead of the aoldlcrs. In the memory of recent generations .Santa Lucia was only a mass of rocks tinlll the inspiration to transform it into a mountain-side park was felt, -and the conversion into a perpendicular hanging garden of drives, terraces, *roves_ statues, fountains and grottoes peas accomplished without art being allowed entirely to deface nature. If <5asti!ian or Andalusian traditions had bad much lodgment iu the Chilean character \be most that would have <?oscc of the splendid situation would lxavo been a park at the foot of Santa Lucia. The names in Santiago might make anyone from the States feel at home, but tore he would be deceived. The Spanish names that correspond to Brown, Jones aud Smith are not predominant, and this fact might be taken as auother evidence that the Spanish ?Jemeat in the Chilean character is lacking. This guess would be faulty. They are not from Catnlnnia or Andalusia, but the patronymics of the mountain provinces and of the Basque region are very common. Where the newcomer from the States Is deceived is in supposing the many familiar names he sees and hears, -which have not a trace of a foreign r tongue, must be of his own people or of his English cousins. Hearing some of the names, the inquiry almost al.*vaya is: "Your father must have been American, English, Irish or Scotch?" and the answer is: "No. but I believe xny father's grandfather had English ancestry." Oi:c or two generations Is not enough to account for the names. They go a long way back. While in many ways a visitor from the North feels himself at home hero *o far south in other respects ho finds | .that- the land and its customs are strangers to him. There is no North American rush and push. Trade, industry, olheial and social life flow in .smooth currents. Tfcp day does not really begin until j after the midday breakfast, and it j v onds in time for a leisurely preparation for the evening dinner. The stores ?>pon late and close early. The work of all classes, except the laborers, seems to be compressed into the space of five or six hours. ) If I should have a quarrel xvllh Santiago. it would be over the climate. This is tie winter season?almost mid-1 xvinter. And '* !s cold. Yet the orange trees in the patios of the dwell-1 ings are yeilow with fruit: the slopes of Santa Lucia, if not of the rich \ elyet green of the spring and summer, arc still green, and the foliage along the Alameda, while a little brown and , thin, is cot sere. A . jcof t the appearance is of early ( tiutumu. But the cold is a damp, penetrating cold indoors, and not a crisp. inYjgoruuu-? wiu uuiuwio. i c? ul mc booses Lave chimneys, so that open by-places are rare. The paraffine or oil stoves, which are the only means of heating, are wofully unsatisfactory. The trouble, the native residents say, Is that the rains are too moist. Many families get along without artificial beat the whole winter through. All thj poor people do. They shiver for fon- months. ! There is compensation. Though the skies are sombre?triste (sadi is the word, November gray in EngV A llsh?the snow slopes and ridges of the Cordilleras of the Andes are visible nearly always through the haze. At times the sun shines on them. Then it is like the spring, and one is tempted to start out for a brisk hour's walk to greet the snow, for Santiago has a snowfall only once in ten years, and then it is a light one. The hour would be a long one, but the summits seem near when the sun shines. Then have a "political situation" In Chile most of the time, as they tell me. It takes the form of ministerial or cabinet crises. To read of these crises a long distance off gives the impression that they are serious interruptions of govern ment functions. Seen on the ground I they are less serious. They are, in fact, nothing more than the natural outcome of the political system, which does not make the chief executive the head of his party or assure him homogeneous administration of his own during his term of office. Instead, he has to govern jointly with the congress under the parliamentary theory carried to the extreme limit. Political changes are frequent, and the cabinet has to be shifted to meet them. Hence the ministerial or cabj inet changes. A crisis was on when I arrived. It has since been resolved In the usual manner, and the administration is pro[ ceeding smoothly. The new congress was elected in March. Its life is three years, that being the term of deputies or representatives. The senators serve six years and the president live. There are ninety-four deputies and thirty-two senators. I had a chance to see the opening of ! (he Chilean congress. It is quite a dignified function. Mounted troops from the garrison were drawn up in the street, a detachment of military cadets lined the entrance to the congress building, and the state carriages, each with four horses, were in waiting. v Tlie senators ami representatives assembled in the large salon where their joint sessions are held: the diplomatic corps with the papal delegates were seated at one side, while the diplomatic gallery was given over to spectators, among whom were a number of ladies. Their presence was said to be an innovation of recent years. The acting president and the members of the cabinet were seated on the raised chair or'platform. Commerce and industry are not in the most flourishing condition, and that is why the new congress lias serious problems before it. Prosperity lias waned. . In seeking the causes there is difference of opinion. No political group cares to be held responsible for hard times, and none is able to fix the responsibility on its opponents. Hints of poular discontent are heard in the workingmen's movement, which is unlike anything heretofore known in Chile, and there are murmurs of tile oincepK and the masses. The social question is a palpitating oue. ? New ?!ork Globe. Bird Mimicry. ''The roar of the- ostrich resembles the roar of the lion because the ostrich stole from the lion this sound, even as one playwright steals from another a plot." An ornithologist made that odd assertion in a taxidermist's shop, lie went on to elaborate it. "Birds from the ostrich down are imitative. The ostrich, where he lives alone, is silent, hut in a country where lions abound lie roars. Why? Because for centuries, admiring the majesty and grandeur of the lion's roar, lie gradually learned to roar himself. Believe me, it is tine to see an ostrich throw back bis little head and emit a roar like thunder. "Buntings imitate pipits, and greenfinches imitate yellow hammers. They seek their food in the winter together, and they gradually steal each other's calls. "The jay is an insatiable imitator. Some jays will include in their repertory not only the wlioo-oo of the kite, the scream of the buzzard and the hoot of the cwl, but also the bleat of the lamb and the neigh of a horse. "Even the nightingale imitates. In a nightingale's perfect song I Lave often heard the tip-sip-sislsis of the woodwarbler and the btlb-ub-ubbie of the nuthatch."?Washington Post. Olilcst Letter in the World. What is probably the most ancient letter in the world has just been discovered in some excavations being made in the Province of Attica, and M. Wilbolm, secretary of the Austrian Archnelogical institute here, who has succeeding in deciphering it. asserts that it was written four centuries before Christ. It is engraved on a leaden leaf, folded in two, and it bears on the outside the following address: "To the porter of the market at Poiis, to be delivered either to Nauslas or to Thrasicles or to their sons." the text' of the letter is as follows: j ''Mnesiengos sends Iiis greetings to | those in the house and informs them. ' that he is in good health. Please send me a blanket or some sheepskins, if possible of the ordinary kind, without ornaments. As soon as the occasion oilers I ?h*n return them." ^ Crcwu Ciiitoaw. King Tcter "placed the crown on his head," whereas King Edward had his crown placed upon his head by the Archbishop of Canterbury. In acting as he did Peter Ivarageorgevitch imi-j tated the example of Frederick, the tirst king of Prussia, who, at Konigsberg, placed the crown upon his head in token that he had received it, without episcopal mediation, direct from the King of Kings; whereas, in point of fact, he had bribed and bargained it out of Kaiser Leopold. It was thus from Frederick I. that William II. derived his doctrine of divine right.? New York Globe. . <&jjg===^=-~ SZSS Will It Do Any Gooil? These "don'ts" ure commonplace, but it is the commonplace transgressions of which so many thoughtless persons are guilty that makes their repetition seem desirable: Don't stand in the middle of the sidewalk and talk. Don't block' the public doorways. Don't laugh so you can be beard on the other side of the street. Don't buy more than you expect to be able to pay for. Don't take your babies shopping before they are three months old. Don't tell your ailments in public. Don't talk about operations.' And don't brag. To Avoid Wrinkle*. i1ie finding of a gray hair does not bring the same qualm to a woman as the discovery of a wrinkle. Gray hairs can be dyed, bleached or pulled out, though the last operation is rather paiLful. when every other one is turning. and most women fear the loss of hair almost as much as tbe coming <1 wrinkles. Another thing most women knew is that the first sign of advanc ing years is the line directly under tne i chin anil the succeeding rolis of fat. J Following these gentle forerunners the observant woman realizes that unless strenuous measures are taken the rolls of fat grow into an unsightly bag of flc?li. When the skin turns brown a woman's claim to youth is ended. There is only one remedy for the wrinkles, anil the gray hairs, too. experts say, and that is skillful massage. Patchwork Modes Predicted. Surplice modes are followed in a number of waists?notice that "waists" seems a better terra than blouses or shirt waists for these separate garments?and an excellent opportunity Is thus acquired for the combining of two materials. One charming sample of this tendency is a waist of rich taffeta in gorgeous Persian design, bound with a band of dull "old blue" silk, and this framing a chemisette and collar of cream embroidery. Another made in the same style is of cream silk flannel, a border of moss-green velvet ribbon running around neck and down the crossed surplice fronts, inclosing a V and stock of cream lace. Very beautiful they are viewed separately. But one wonders how they are going to look with any other kind of skirt than a shirt from the same fabric. The ltichcst Women. Mrs. r.obert J. C. Walker, the Philadelphia woman who has just inherited Sot).000,000. has been obliged to stay in hop homo most of the time since tile announcement of her inheritance to prevent becoming a victim of the snapshot fiends. The desire for her picture will pass in a few days, but she has succeeded, so far, in escaping the camera. Miss Helen Gould has succeeded in keeping her picture irciu the papers, and a few other people have been equally successful. Miss Gould is only half as :ich as Mrs. Walker, and now ranks only ninth among the world's richest women. Miss Bertha Krupp leads tue list, being credited with $1125,000,000, and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbllt is second, with $SO,000,000, Mrs. C. P. Huntington third, with $75,000,000, then Mrs. Walker, and after her come Mrs. H. C. Potter, Mrs. Ogdcn Goelet and Mrs. Hetty Green. Uloveleu Hands. Not without regret is the fashion of appearing gloveless to be observed. The thin end of this sartorial wedge was inserted some time since at the theatres, and now the mode has been pushed further, and one finds women who at one time would never have ventured out of doors ungloved now appearing in public places both night and day with bare hand. It has been ,,"'VA'1 *%?* onrl rin*v& lln TlfVt Itl gCU mill ??> -? agree. Better, it is argued, to show well kept manicured fingers sparkling with gems than to encase them in gloves, which must necessarily make them appear much larger, since it is an open secret that gloves at least one size larger must be worn by women who wear rings as compared with those who do not. Again, it is pleaded that in hot weather women suffer much discomfort from gloves, whereas man is freed from it. But all such arguments are weak. The glove is one of the daintiest adjuncts of a woman's toilet. It possesses romantic associations. It is always characteristic of its wearer, it has an undoubted air of 1 refinement about it, and, ni reover, it is cleanly and hygienic. ?To say that without it a woman does not look finished. that she appears less dainty aud less dignified, is perhaps a trifie exaggerated, but at least it is a fact Hint inattention to such trifles as gloves marks deterioration in a womau. Anything that has this effect is to be ! sternly dlscouruged. And for this reason the fashion of discarding gloves whenever possible is not one which can be viewed .with equanimity.?Ladies' Pictorial An ?r? For Color. Happy is the woman who has an Innate sense of harmony, who knows not only one tint from another, but knows what colors will blend and what colors will quarrJ. Happy the woman who does not spend her strength and her mon.'y trying to have an attractive i \ \C home or pleasing wardrobe aud all to uo purpose. The woman who has an eye for color can work the happiest effect# and often with very small means. Her home is restful and inviting, with an indefinable charm which money alone can never buy. She would no mor~ think of compelling purple to stand with blue or scarlet with crimson, than she would think of inviting into her parlor two persons who were sworn enemies to each otlie':. She would avoid a loud-mouthed individual full of self assertion and overbearing ways. Instead of envying and aping the neb, the woman who will study the nature of colors and the laws of bar* mony and make her selection in accordance with thorn will be gratified with a beautiful home, simple, perhaps. but wonderfully pleasing in its air of cheerful eomfort aud expression of refined feeling. The woman who has a sense of harmony. either native or acquired, will not make the mistake of overloading her rooms or her garments. True art .inmoniU thi* nhseuee of whatever is superfluous, m?aiiiHg!ess, or contradictory and fretting. It may not be easy to give up what vulgarity and coarseness have so long exacted, but refined taste once acquired has no use for the tawdry, the worthless, anil the oppressive weight of decoration. Simplicity does not signify bareness r.or any form of Puritanism, but it does mean a harmony that produces peace on ail who come under its Influence.? Chicago Chronicle. Why Some Women Overdrew. "It is really ridiculous the way some good-looking women gown themselves." she said to her friend, who was seated next to her in the parlor car of a train. "Can you understand why a woman with a beautiful complexion, nice hair and eyes, and a good figure, will insist in weuriug ail the colors of the rainbow at the same time, and make herself not only ridiculous, but also homely?" I "The only way I can account for it is that she doesn't know any better," said the companion. "I wonder why nature gave such women good looks? They don't knovt* how to appreciate them. Woman forJ A 11? ' -iU*..!,! K/v flirt nincf gcis mai ilie iuce suuuiu uc iuc striking thing about her. Why will she persist in making it look ridiculous with purple hats a yard wide,' diamonds in the ears, flaming red dresses, collars that choke, corsets that squeeze and every other imaginable thing? "When a woman starts to dress why won't she remember that her face is the thing to think about? Why can't she make herself attractive as naturally, and as simple as possible? She uses nil her ingenuity trying to look like something that she is not. Let her be natural and cultivate her own expression and make the best of her face. "A sensible dress for any woman is a plain brown dress. The only better dress is a plain black one or a plain white one when the woman is young. The other day I saw a woman who wore a tan skirt, a blue waist, a purple hat. and carried a black handbag. Did von pvor hear of anything so ridicu lous? I often wonder where the woman got her taste from. Sorely any common sense person ought to he uble to see what colors harmonize. "There ought to be a school for some young women to learn how to dress properly. It is just what is wanted."? New Haven Itegister. Soft silk dresses will reign supreme over all costumes. A new shade of green is shown in leather bags, purses and belts. Accordion pleated ruffling in ecru and, white lace is among tue new lace trimmings. The tailor-made new felt hats are in various toques and turban chapes, and are trimmed with velvet. Velvet, velveteens and corduroys. In blues, browns, wintergrecus and wine rods, are among the fall and winter suitings. "How does that young woman l:ccp her hat oa her head?" asked one man recently, pointing to a girl who had one of the boat-shaped hats on. Taffeta, of whoso jnuestrucuDiuy she has been assured, will be regarded as a precious possession by the woman who has gone to the trouble of making it up. The new shopping bags are made of patent leather lined with a bright shade of silk and iitted with a purse, note book, pencil, curd case and rinalgrette. New stoles for Immediate use aro charming mixtures of marabout, and a quality of imitation of Venise so flno that it can sca.oely be detected from the real thing. Why will young women persist in wearing those boat-shaped hats, which sit on the head in such a manner tbat men wonder the headgear doesn't fly off -with a little breeze2 S . / A SEBMON FOB SUNDA1 AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED. "FREEDOM IN CHRIST." The Rpt. Edward Hunttlns: Rudd Show* How Faith Unfold* |It*elf In Many Form* of Chrlatian Experience?Repentance, Growth and Service. J Brooklyn, N. Y.?The Rev. Edward IHuntting Rudd, pastor of the First Congregational Church, Dedham, Mass., * ? ? ? _ il _ m preacnea ounaay morning in me .LumpKins Avenue Congregational Church to a large audience. His subject was "Freedom in Christ," and the text was from John ii.: 13 and 14: "But as many as received Him to them gave He the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on His name, who were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God." Mr. Kudd said: Can I do as I please? Or must I will to do as another pleases? Am I a free agent or are limitations placed upon me? Is liberty unrestrained freedom, or am I the more truly free when my actions and words are controlled by divine laws, imposed willingly upon man by his own enlightened self? To answer these questions intelligently, clearly and helpfully takes us at once into that held of Christian sociology and of the interrelation of man with man and of man with his God which so engages the attention of men everywhere to-day. The place and duty of the church is very clear. It is to show men in the spirit or candor, of sympathy, of open mindedness, of tolerance, that the word of God gives us great elemental teachings by a master thinker and reasoner. who was divine and who claims the right to influence men. The soealled great problems of labor and capital will And a permanent solution only by the arbitrament of the Man of Galilee. But it is your duty and mine to remind ourselves and others that according as we square ourselves with the requirements of God in Christ shall the problems of life be met and be grappled and worth while results be achieved. We are here to-day to ask entrance into the light. We are here to know more truth, so that truth may make us free. We long to know how to be happily and contentedly free. To have our freedom sn n?pd that everywhere men shall recoi nize it as the article they wish, and. posnessing it with us. we shall together make men strong. Bearing one another's burdens we shall surely fulfill in part the law of Christ. The gospel of St. John, simf?le vet profound, shows us how to gain reedom in Christ. It reminds us what is so necessary to recall in this easy going, non-thinking age, viz., that in no real and permanent sense are men children of God until Christ has made them -such by vital union with Him. That we have no rijjjht to call ourselves children until God Him elf transfers that right to us by an act of will and obedience on our part, so recognized by Christ, who has in the very process of our obedience done His part. To claim the friendship of another is not to possess it. To say of Christ and our relations to Him, as we say of some wellknown people, "Oh, yea. I know Him well; He is a warm personal friend," when in reality little more than a formal introduction has been given, is in essence to know only about Him. and that in a formal sen?e. instead of being divinely commissioned by the living holy spirit of G<>d to be a "child of God" and an heir with Christ to eternal life. Manifestly, then, this is an important matter to us all? even to the careless, thoughtless ones who make up a part of every audience. Have we anv right to call ourselves "children of God?" And if we have, what hus God, by His regenerating spirit, done in us? It was our New England poet, Lowell, who said: The thing we long for?that vrc arc For one transcendent moment. 13 UL CVfll IIIC ldim iu ur Hue Ml fact unless we have such a definite, genuine faith in God's_ power and willingness to give us Himself and to make us son* and daughters of the living God, that we receive Hiri and by that act avail of Him as our Saviour not only for one transcendent moment, but for all the momenta for the rest of time, and in that act wc are born of God, and by that act we are given the right to become?aye, to be begotten a- children of God. Almost immediately in this sublime, scholarly and heart searching gospel of John, that great discinle. sneaking the words of Christ Himself, begins bv dividing mankind into the same two divisions which are represented in this audience, ami in every audience, viz., these who have received Him and those who. though they were His own by creation, received Him not, by a regenerating faith. And 1 want just now. if possible, to avoid abstruse, moss covered theological terms and j phraseology, and to clothe these burning issues in simple, clear Bible language,, but none the less to remind ourselves that j many of us are longing to get out into the open sky, in some of the old fashioned, necessary dactrines of the word or God. Wc have gotten some of the choicest and j most essential statements of divine truth beclouded, and wo are not quite sure where we are. May God's spirit enlighten and allay doubt and uncertainty on these truth.: this day. ; ad aliign us all in the comforting strength of His own s.nship. And I frankly believe, my brother man. we cannot be satisfied in this sublime hour by turning to the poets, much as they will uplift and rest us. Even ti.ougu vou turn to Enciton, who has been so cs altcd end almost deified by some in New I j-kiglr.nd I*i itarianism end ask him about )):.! 12. and in one piacs ho will tell von: "A nr.n is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one aoorr.. a.id ?gypt. Greece, Rome. Gaul, jlritain, America, lie folded already i:i the first inan." Yes, potentiality lies enfolded, but naurht else can bring it to ?.ir:'c.cr r.ad to living power save the touch ? : ( hrist the Redeemer of Manhood. Nor docs the statement of Carlyle satisly me. for you recall in his essay on "characteristic.-." he says: "Man stands in the centra of nature: hi? fraction of time encircled. by eternity, his handbrcadth of apace eneircied by infinitude." I say this cannot satisfy you. for you long 10 ltnoiv how you can best live and cxpar.d. while you are in this "centre of nature." and where r.nd how you arc to spend eternity. And voti turn to that beautifully human and real 'pact. Robert Rums, and remember with nim "That man's a man for a* that." and hero yon feel that you may be arguing in a circle, J'.cjt if Rums had only known more of the Man of Calvary, he would have hre:: saved many of the sins which bliyhced his whole life. ^ Or you rrr.y stand with that dear English poet, (Gray, ao from afar he behold. Jlton Collego and exclaims. "Ah, tcil them they are men." end those words and this jioet's longing, more nearly voice your own soul's wish, and you add. "Ah, tell them of the Man. <vir? nccanic d6sh and dwelt among us. that He might redeem men for Himself."' It is to this Incarnate word that we must turn if we are to be enlightened and satisfied. And few passages in God's ' ?-?1 ?Ka?vi '? i mmoHia fy? WUTU Sijcatk uul mutv livpv uuu iiu.iivu.mw blessing than the text: "As many as received Him. to them cave He the right to become children of God." 3ut some one r-sks. what is the process by which this is done? And I reply in the continuing words of this same verse: "Even to them that believe on His name," But what is it to believe on His name? What is faith? And we reply with Buxton: "Faith Is the filial, trustful relation, which the whole man, intellect, heart and will, sustains toward the Lord .Tesus Christ." Christ said to Htt dis?ciplc9. "Conic yc after Me, and I vtill make you i fishers of men." They obeyed. Kearf. intellect and will accepted and believed Christ to have the rignt and the power to communicate to them "sonship" of God. Disciples of Him who walked among them as their Redeemer. And when they had given Him that simple confidence and proved it openly by obedience to His com* . mand of public confession of His claim, glad and willing to be known as His followers and co-workers, at that moment were they given the right to be the children of God. Then were they bom not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. The genuineness of their faith and sonship waa attested in various ways. To them salvation in Christ was equipment for service to others. They did not doubt the divine personality of Christ, but they followed Him. Your child loves and rejoices in you when he obeys you. Christ the great eaptain of righteousness is asking men to follow Him. "If yo know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.'' This fkars morn inM!o/?hl.ll P CgPflt to the doctrines and teachings of Christ, for this may remain only profession and not pass into feeling and action. You recall the searching words of Christ sneaking to the intellectual failures of the Pharisees, in Matthew xv: 8: "This peonle honoreth Me with their lips, hut their heart is far from Me. But in vain they do worship Me, teaching for doctrine the commandments of men." And again, when He was speaking to this same aristocracy of the intellect and sticklers for the strict letter of the law. He said: "And why call ye me Lord! Lord! and do not the th'ngs which I say?" Manifestly, then. Christ was eager that men should give honest, hearty assent to His claims of discipleehip. He then promised potential freedom, personal liberty. But the mere exercise of faith was not enough. Christianity is something larger and finer"v than even the genuine exercise of laith in the person and work of Christ. Faith unfolds itself in many forms of Christian experience and activity, all of which are 'embraced in "repentance, growth and service." When St. Paul wrote to that little band of men at Enhesus. who had exercised their faith in the ocrsonal Christ, he hade them "grow up in all things into Him, who is the head even Christ." But lest there may be some among us this morning who. in thinking this whole matter over, do not find it so difficult to believe this Divine Son of God. but who do not auite appreciate the relation of a man to his sin, to his failures, hi3 deliberate acts of wrong and evil, is it necessary to repent? And what is repentence? "Exceot ye repent." cried> John the Baptist. Manifestly it is necessary. And wlnt is it? "It is a deep change of the entire thinking, feeling and willing man; and involves as its elements enlightenment, contrition and confession, praver for pardon and peace, connting the cost and endeavor after new obedience." Look at these for a moment. Enlighten: ment! This is the work of the Holy Ghost. It was not until the prodigal son came to himself that he started on that wondrous pathway to lifelong blessing. Enlightenment as to his own folly and sin and consciousness that a father's love awaited his return. My brother, if some things arc uncertain, pray for enlightenment and He who in the same chapter proclaimed Himself to be the light of men will reveal the pa'th to contrition and confession. "I have sinned against heaven and in Thy sight" was a life giving confession and prayer. It showed that faith in the Father's love was sorry and ashamed for its past ingratitude. In that heart crv for pardon was the soul's receiving Christ, and because He reeved, he had thcright to be a son of God. Man repented and God by His divine act regenerated. There are others here to-day who will admit the truth di much that I say. but in whom and about whom there are obstacles which you have rot the courage end the determined patience to overcome. Some of these obstacles are the power of . sin in the soul, foY, like St. Paul of old. you find a law that "when you do good evil is present;" a false pride in one's own personality and achievement, for there are not a few of us, with' "I thank Thee that I am not as other men are" tendencies; the environment of worldly interest" and friendships, and the insincerity or many professing Christians. Ah. how many of ijs does this latter include? Nevertheless, not a few are enabled to rise above these obstacles and become song of God. Again I ask the initial question of this message, can I do as I please? Or must I do as another pleases? And I believe an honest studv of the New Testament will show us that the onlv freedom which is comnreliensive is the freedom and Kb- , crty which God gives to our whole r^ure , when we have accented or received Hi* - Son Jesus Christ to be onr Redeemer and Master. May you this day. my earnest, seeking friends, find the Christ whose ?acrificial love, represented in this'atoning blood, and receiving Him by faith, be called children of God, and if <hildrentyWrf then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together. # Kverj Man a Painter. "Paint me a picture," said a great master to his favorite pupil. "Paint me a picture," said the student. '(I cannot paint a picture worthy of such a master." "Put Hf. i{ for mv sake?for my sake," was the response. I'he student went to his task, and after many months of labor he returned to the master and said. ''Come and see." When the curtain fell, the greatest picture of the aye was before [ them, "The Last Supper," of Leonardo da | Vinci. "Paint Me a picture." says the Divine Master to every Christian worker in this [ community. Do not say that you cannot, I for His aid is promised you. "Paint M? a nicture of consecrated service; do it for My sake." And in the coming time, when we walk the corridors of the immortal, perchance we shall see on its jasper walls our pictures of consecrated efforts, which shall be to the honor of that name which -1 is forever beet, because it shall have been "for His sake." IInvp Faith in Go't. Phillips Brooks declared we should strive to see the loving hand of (Lid in every trial and sorrow. lie once expressed this thought in the following dialogue: "What shall I do with this sorrow that God has sent me?" "Take it up and bear it, and get a strength and blessing out of it." "Ah, if I oniy knew what blessing there was in it, if I oniy saw how it would | help me, then i could bear it like a plnme!'' "What shall I da with this hard, hateful duty whjoh Christ lias laid right in mv wcv?" "Do it, and grow bv doing it.'' * > o .... .is "All. yes; it i couia oniv m:c i.;au >?, ?uuih make me grow!" In both these cases do you not see that what you are begging for is not more faith, although you think it is. but sight? You want to see for yourself the b'.essing in the sorrow, the strength in the hard and hateful task. Faith sa.va not. "I see that it is good Cor me, and so God must have sent it," but "Gcd sent ii? and so it must be good for me." Little Aid on the .Streets. V A religious man can receive but littJa help in regard to his religion on the public streets to-day because everybody is rushing to and from their business and retv little is thought of their chtlrch and God. The streets are pure, but some of the people who walk upon them are the ones thai are impure.?Rev. Herbert Judscm White* Bcrcrly, Mass. Always With Oo4* Never attempt one duty without God; you taay attempt 10,000 with ilim.? Chimea. - ?