An elderly man touched his arm. "It's been worth while, don't you think?" "O, it's you, Mr. Brooks. 'Worth while!' I should say so. Why cannot the same thing be done in every city where the need is as great?" "It can, if--" the lawyer paused thoughtfully. "If--" said Mr. Alfred Harris, looking gravely at the lawyer. "If the world will give itself to redeem itself." He went on toward the settlement, and the other man went his way with his head bent in reverie. Somehow he seemed to hear the words borne to him from the settlement, "And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us." Ah, yes! Shall the world ever be redeemed in any other way? "And they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, '_God with us_.'" THE END. * * * * * End of Project Gutenberg's The Redemption of Freetown, by Charles M. Sheldon