Party; interests! '■What are they that we shouia bo asked to place them before the interests of humsmity ? And of these larger and nobler interests are we not ourselves able to judge ' Let me commend £o your attention wbat 3?ee£ Jetton on this

point by an American writer. He says: “It is never wise nor safe for th© Christian nimd to trive over any political question or social law entirely to the conflict of party interests. The ethics of it, the ethical implications and pos sible ethical reactions of all current questions of government or administration, will bear con stant watching. No party interest should be suffered to obscure the moral relations and pos sible ethical consequences of political action. Indeed, to rise above the immediate c'aims of party to the level of the moral view of any current political question may at times be the first duty of the Christian man to the State— an obligation of the higher law in his politics which he is to discharge in the fear of God, and as a part of his repetition of the Lord's Prayer, “Thy Kingdom come. I must now, however, pass on from what 1 have called the ethics of voting, lest I tire you by too much dry teaching, merely adding by way of conclusion to this section, of my lecture that any voter who will permit himself to be governed by those five principles which I have sought to enunciate will honor himself and raise bis country in righteousness. Thus, voting with the largest of alfoutlooks—the public good—he will indeed prove himself worthy to take his place, however humbly, bv the side of the noblest patriots, ami of all those heroic souls to whom is chiefly owing the present elevation of our race. With your permission we will now turn our attention to the CHARACTER AND QUALIFICATIONS OF REPRESEN TATIVES, and if, while this is being done, you keep well in mind the candidates now in the field, so much the better. For though I may not discuss individuals, yet nothing hinders me in holding, “as ’twere, the mirror to nature to show Virtue her own feature. But at the outset some may object to references to character. “ The character of representa tives,” they sav, “is personal, and does not con cern the public. 