filled with the Spirit he deals largely with the Word
of God, whereas the man who is filled with his own ideas refers
rarely to the Word of God. He gets along without it, and you seldom
see it mentioned in his discourses.

BLIND.

A Mother's Mistake.

While I was attending a meeting in a certain city sometime ago a lady
came to me and said: "I want you to go home with me; I have something to
say to you." When we reached her home, there were some friends there;
After they had retired, she put her arms on the table, and tears began
to come into her eyes, but with an effort she repressed her emotion.
After a struggle she went on to say that she was going to tell me
something which she had never told any other living person. I should not
tell it now; but she has gone to another world. She said she had a son
in Chicago, and she was very anxious about him. When he was young he got
interested in religion at the rooms of the young Men's Christian
Association. He used to go out in the street and circulate tracts. He
was her only son, and she was very ambitious that he should make a name
in the world, and wanted him to get into the very highest circles. Oh,
what a mistake people make about these highest circles. Society is
false; it is a sham. She was deceived like a good many more votaries of
fashion and hunters after wealth at the present time. She thought it was
beneath her son to go down and associate with those young men who hadn't
much money. She tried to get him away from them, but they had more
influence than she had, and, finally, to break his whole association,
she packed him off to a boarding-school. He went soon to Yale College,
and she supposed he got into one of those miserable secret societies
there that have ruined so many young men; and the next thing she heard
was that the boy had gone astray.

She began to write letters urging him to come into the Kingdom of God,
but she heard that he tore the letters up without reading them. She went
to him to try and regain whatever influence she possessed over him, but
her efforts were useless, and she came home with a broken heart. He left
New Haven, and for two years they heard nothing of him. At last they
heard he was in Chicago, and his father found him and gave him $30,000
to start in business. They thought it would change him, but it didn't.
They asked me when I went back to Chicago to try and use my influence
with him. I got a friend to invite him to