Rev. Charles H. Perry of St. Peter's Church, Cambridge, addressed the St. Paul's Society in 17 Grays last night. He spoke of the purposes and uses of Lent, He said: Whenever we draw near the end of a piece of work that we have laid out before us, it is good plan to pause and look back on what we have done. We are apt to get confused as we proceed in something that at the outset looked simple enough, and sometimes we even forget our original purpose. In Lent most of us try a little more earnestly to improve ourselves, for example we try to break loose from some bad habit or to help others nearer to God. Towards the end of Lent, though, we usually find that we have not done so well as we hoped to. What we must do then, is to look to our original purpose and with God's help put in some earnest work before Easter. It is very well to say that your good work can go after Lent, but as a matter of fact it probably will not for in Lent men really devote more time to religion than at any other time of the year, and in general churchmen are not very demonstrative about religious matters. The first and most important work for us to do is to strengthen and broaden our own characters, for, though this seems a selfish idea, no man can help others to be strong until he is himself a broad, strong man.

After the services a business meeting was held.