Vesper Service.

A good-sized audience attended the vesper service at Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon. The congregation read responsively the 91st Psalm. Dr. Francis G. Peabody offered prayer. The Rev. Theodore C. Williams of New York, preached a short sermon, basing his remarks on the words which Jesus spoke first to the Pharisees and then to his disciples, telling them that it was because. He had opened their eyes and they no longer were blind that there could be no palliation of their sin. Our sins are many or few according to our knowledge of them, and therefore, together with our first higher sense of real righteousness, comes a feeling of sin and shame. But this rising sense of sin is a hopeful sign, for if we receive it into our hearts with pure feelings we shall be animated to rise above it, and with a better heart to accomplish the designs for which we have been created. Our care must be not to let this feeling of contrition weaken or turn us away. If, in the depths of our discouragement, we look humbly to God as our guide, with the hope that part of that seemingly far distant righteousness may be ours, we shall see, in this feeling of contrition, the prophecy of better things.

The opening hymnal by the choir was "A Hymn of the Homeland," by Sullivan. The anthem "O Worship the Lord" was sung by Mr. Gardner S. Lamson, '77, with the choir. Mr. Lamson also sang in an highly commendable manner the Amen-Gounod's "Glory to Thee, My God, this Night."