Dr. McKenzie spoke before the Christian Association in Holden Chapel last evening. He took as his subject the story told in Matthew 19, of the rich young man who came to Christ.

Christmas time, he said, brings us to a serious realization of Christ's relation to us. The gladness of Christmas is a thoroughly legitimate joy. It commemorates the greatest benefit that has ever been given to mankind-an assurance of salvation. Since this is so, the feeling of God's gift to us ought to bring us thankfulness and joy. Yet we are apt to stand in an unholy fear of God, and to feel that religion, though an admirable thing to die with, is a hindrance to our peace and success in this life. Our failure to gain a right understanding of our relation to God is not a difficulty of sentiment, but of what we believe to be our best interest. We are afraid that, to profess Christianity, we must resign all hope of being successful in a worldly sense. Yet the command to the young man to give up his possessions was only incidental to the promise of eternal life. Christ knew that the young man's wealth would hinder him in a disciple's work. In the same way he requires us to abandon only what stands in the way of our welfare. Religion does not prevent us from attaining worldly success, and we are not called upon to relinquish anything that is consistent with true christian living.

Our only welfare is our eternal welfare. Our highest glory on earth is to cause others to forget our particular individualities, and, by showing in our lives the glory of God, to bring others to a conception of it.