Appleton Chapel.

A very large congregation assembled in the chapel last evening to hear Dr. Lyman Abbott of Brooklyn. The subject of the discourse was "The Foundations of Christian Belief." It was a most eloquent sermon, and those students who did not hear it certainly lost a great opportunity. Dr. Abbott described the present age as one of great questionings; but he said that he was glad to find it so, because an age of doubt is an age of advancement. More intelligent bases of belief are now demanded and old allegiances are being cast away. We cannot, however, prove spiritual truths of scientific argument to-day any more than we could yesterday. We do not believe in God because the theory of his existence is the best hypothesis to account for creation; but we believe in Him because our consciousness finds Him interwoven in our lives, because we find a power in us not of ourselves. We have experience every day of the undying love of God. The music rendered by the choir was unusually good; it included the anthems "Hearken unto My voice," by Smart, and "Christian, the evening waits before thee," by Shelley.