“Not only to Argentina and Chile,” he said, “do we dedicate this monument, but to the World, that from this it may learn the lesson of Universal Peace.” Years have gone by since then. To-day a railroad takes travellers over the mountains by another route. They no longer pass the bronze figure that pleads for Peace. “The peon with a mail-bag strapped on his back has tramped his way for the last time down the rocky trail in the winter-snows,” writes Mr. Nevin O. Winter, who has seen _El Cristo_. “_El Cristo_ stands among the lonely crags deserted, isolated, and storm-swept; but ever with a noble dignity befitting the character.” But Chile and Argentina have not yet forgotten their pledge. They are still showing the World the Better Way--the way of Arbitration and Peace. SEPTEMBER 6 THE MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE THE FRIEND OF AMERICA _As soon as I heard of American Independence, my heart was enlisted!_ LAFAYETTE LAFAYETTE SAID WHEN OFFERING HIS SERVICES TO CONGRESS _After the sacrifices I have made, I have the right to exact two favours. One is to serve at my own expense--the other is, to serve at first as volunteer._ JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, TO LAFAYETTE _On Bidding Him Farewell, in 1825_ _Our children, in life and after death, shall claim you for our own. You are ours by that more than patriotic devotion with which you flew to the aid of our Fathers at the crisis of their fate.... Ours by that tie of love, stronger than death, which has linked your name, for endless ages to come, with the name of_ WASHINGTON. LAFAYETTE was born in France, September 6, 1757 He came to the rescue of America, 1777 He made his triumphal tour, 1824-25 He died in France, May 20, 1834 His full name was Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier Marquis de Lafayette. He preferred to be called plain “Citizen Gilbert Motier.” I WILL JOIN THE AMERICANS! One night, in 1776, the old Marshal, Commander of the French forces at Strasburg, was giving a dinner party in honour of the Duke of Gloucester. This light-hearted English Duke was in disgrace with his royal brother King George the Third of England; so he was taking a little trip abroad. At the Marshal’s dinner he was maliciously regaling the guests with a humorous account of how the Americans had flouted King George and had flung his chests of tea into Boston Harbour, and had declared their Independence. The Duke’s sympathies were all with the Americans, and he dwelt on their need of volunteers. Amongst the guests--officers in blue and silver, Strasburg grandees in gold-lace and velvet, all exclaiming, laughing, and gesticulating--was one silent, solemn-faced young officer. He was lean, red-haired, and hook-nosed, and very awkward. He kept his eager eyes fixed on the Duke’s face. Nobody noticed him. After dinner, he strode across the room to the Duke, and opened his lips for the first time.