The Chapel Service

The Chapel was well filled last evening by a congregation which assembled to hear a sermon preached by Professor Geo. P. Fisher, D. D., of Yale. The text was taken from Ephesians iv-26: "Be angry and sin not." The preacher said that he had examined all the essays in the New Testament in which Christ is said to have shown anger towards them about Him and that he had found those classes of persons towards whom the anger had been drawn; first, those who endeavored to tempt Him to desert His mission and to put his power to a wrong use; second, those who used hypocrisy and feigned piety as cloaks for iniquity; third, those who wilfully rejected the truth or who prevented it for their own interest. Dr. Fisher discovered in the examples he read of Christ's indignation, a principle that drew a clear distinction between inward anger and unlawful anger. Christ was never guilty of the latter. His anger was never personal, never revengeful, but it was a reflex of the highest zeal for truth and holiness, a feeling of abhorrence for sin itself, not for the weak ones upon whom sin had fastened.

The music sung by the choir was of a high order and included the following anthems: "Behold, how Good and Joyful," by Clark-Whitfield; "Av' Verum," by Saint-Saeus; "Jubilate" by Smart.