father, i as in police, and the s as in cerise. The voice is stressed on the first syllable. The Christian poet wrote “Grace! ’tis a charming sound, Harmonious to the ear; Heav’n with the echo shall resound, And all the earth shall hear. Saved by grace alone! This is all my plea: Jesus died for all mankind, And Jesus died for me.” But of the latter, the Greeks of the pre-Christian era knew nothing. Charis (Χαρις) referred first of all to “that property in a thing which causes it to give joy to the