have forty times as much good work as the last forty years. In my own native city, perhaps one of the most impressive things in a small way physically and in a large way spiritually that we have is the statue of William Penn. It is a large statue out on our beautiful Wissahickon Drive. It stands on a granite pedestal very solid and very square, and on the pedestal there is no name, but there is this one word, "Toleration." If we could realize this text there, and here, and all over — if we could justify the heritage that has come down to us both from Massachusetts and from Pennsylvania, this Association would have done a work that I think would stand in the annals of the world. But the work is not done; and if I may for a minute call attention to two or three little things, I would like to do it, in the hope of having this outlook to the future a practical one.

I began my own teaching in Philadelphia possibly some eighteen years ago, and I remember that at that time there was so little toleration in the country at large that my own chair of science was seriously menaced because I taught this doctrine of evolution as a part of my own scientific work. And I remember that perhaps fifteen years ago, when Philadelphia had the honor of having the largest Browning Society in the world, and our meetings were held in the parish house of Dr. May's church, where Dr. Furness had so long and so graciously officiated, it became necessary for us to leave those comfortable quarters and to seek a hired hall because some of the members found it impossible to meet in a Unitarian parish house. [Laughter.]

If I may give you one other instance- and this was only eight years ago I was driving in our beautiful country near Philadelphia with a gentleman who was interested in education and who had been seeking a head-master for a boys' school. He told me that what he wanted was a Christian gentleman, and then he added rather as a pious joke and a very narrow escape, that the preceding week he had interviewed a man who seemed to be a gentleman and to have the qualifications of scholarship, but just at the last minute he found out that he was a Unitarian. [Laughter.] This gentleman has since

passed on, and I presume that one of the surprises of that great experience has been to find a number of Unitarians not only enjoying a comfortable temperature, but also enjoying some degree of consideration.

Now, these are little things, but if you pass around the country at large, and particularly if you go outside of this charmed belt around Boston, you will find there is ample field for all that this Association can do for the next forty years, and I hope it may be our privilege to survive at least a portion of that time to help on this great work.

And now may I say one more word, and let it be about the future? I presume that in trying to formulate for ourselves the work of such an Association as this, the direction of our thought will depend upon the definition which we give to religion. Surely all of you who would be attracted to attend a meeting of this sort have passed beyond the point where you hold religion to be a matter simply of metaphysical belief. Those of us who have had a chance to come into contact with the vivifying thought of our own times have surely learned that religion is a matter of the whole life. And I think that most of us have come to a theoretical appreciation that what we do during the twenty-four hours of each day that that is our religion. We have seen this in the best teaching of the Bible; we have seen it in the finest definition "Pure religion and undefiled." We have heard it in one of the most notable parables that Jesus ever gave to the world, the picture of the "Last Judgment," when the final word was not what we had believed but what we had done. I think we all have that theoretical appreciation. But there comes to some of us a moment when this theoretical belief passes over into experience of life, and we take hold of it in a vital way, as we have never taken hold of it before. It may come to us from a book, it may come to us from a friend, it may come to us from a country. In my own case, I feel that this transition from the theoretical to the actual belief was suggested to me, was made real, by my own visit to India, where I found that religion is a matter of twenty-four hours, a matter of what a man eats and drinks, of how much he sleeps, how he makes his living, what

his relations are with his people. I have come to feel that it is our attitude toward life as it expresses itself in every single event - our dress, our food, our sleep, our exercise, our breadand-butter occupation, our relation to our neighbor.

Now, if this be so, those of us who want. freedom in relig ious matters must truly want freedom in social movements and social occupations. I have been very much impressed lately with the tyranny that exists in New England. It happens in my own life that I am something of a free lance, going here and there, hearing the problems of various people and in some cases having the privilege of trying to solve these problems. And I have been struck with the fact that most of the difficulties of these various perplexed persons have been caused by their best friends and relatives, those good people who know exactly what others ought to do. If we persons of the Free Religious Association could carry out our belief in freedom, in our advice to our friends, and especially to those who are dearest to us, if we could give them freedom, I should feel, my friends, that that was part of our religion.

If you know the village life of New England you know that this freedom is small indeed. I could tell you of a widow who has a vision of what she ought to do for her children; whose resources are small, but whose relatives-in-law know precisely what she ought to do something that she cannot possibly do, and that if she did would be wrong. I could tell you of another woman suddenly deprived of most of her means, who can take up the same difficult problem of life and meet it for herself and her children, but whose problem is much more difficult because her friends know what she ought to do and where she ought to economize. If I could say a practical thing to you to-day, it would be this: if you believe in freedom, religious freedom, try to bring it to those who are nearest and dearest to you. It may be your own father or mother or son or daughter; it may be your sister-in-law or your brother-in-law [laughter], or it may be some distant cousin, and especially it may be the poor relation. But, oh, give them freedom, and help them to live the life that they ought to lead according to the fire that is in their own hearts.

May my final word be in regard to Emerson? I have just returned from a wonderful journey through the great Southwest. In California I had the good fortune to meet the two men whom I most wanted to meet; one was John Muir and the other was Luther Burbank. I had nothing to commend me to Mr. Burbank; I am not a biologist, I could not appreciate his great work except in the way that all semi-intelligent people can appreciate it. Nevertheless, he gave me threequarters of an hour of his time, took me over his garden and greenhouse, and made me feel that my long journey had been well worth while. And do you know why I had this rare good fortune? It was because Mr. Burbank loves Emerson! You know, perhaps, that he records in his account of his work that his own activities were practically stimulated and made possibilities by Emerson's teachings. This man who works in the concrete world of plant-life, who has created more new plants than all the generations of plant-breeders before him, attributes -and this illustrates what Mr. Frothingham said about influence these creations to Emerson. And when he wrote to me some time ago he closed his letter with these words: "I love any one who loves Emerson." [Applause.]

THE CHAIRMAN.

- It was evident from the way in which you listened to Mr. Henderson that none of you shared the feeling of his auditor from Illinois; which only shows us how far the East still is from the West.

Now, ladies and gentlemen, I am going to introduce to you, or present to you, a person who stands for two of the greatest reforms of the present time or of any time the cause of peace and the cause of humanity. And the two are really one; for any one who has at heart the cause of humanity is interested in the great cause of peace. I do not think we have reason to be grateful to any people more abundantly than we

are at the present time to those who have been struggling for this great matter of international peace. If any of us are inclined to be pessimistic, or to feel that the world is not moving as fast as it ought to move, we have only to think of the great strides which recently have been made toward a new era of peace the whole world round. It gives me the greatest pleasure to present to you Miss Carolina Huidobro. [Applause.]

REMARKS OF

SEÑORITA CAROLINA H. HUIDOBRO.

"THE CHRIST OF THE ANDES"

SOUTH AMERICA'S LESSON

TO THE WORLD.

Mr. Chairman, Members and Friends of the Free Religious Association:

Our theme this morning and practically this afternoon is the forty years' gain in religion. You will pardon me if I tell you that I cannot say anything about that to you, because — you may not believe it! - forty years ago I was a very little girl, and I was six thousand miles away from Boston, and, further, I was an adherent of and a constant worshiper in a church which stands for anything but free religion. Unable to speak of forty years, what I should like to do is to give you a very brief statement of what four years have accomplished in South America. It is singular that this morning I picked up a book, the official history of the Christ of the Andes, and found there I don't know how it is that I had not recalled the fact before-that it was exactly four years ago to-day, almost to the present hour, that that now famous monument was first unveiled. When speaking, in my illustrated lecture, of the event mentioned, I like to refer to it in the words of the queen who is with us to-day:

"In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across

the sea"