Vesper Services.

Dr. Lyman Abbott conducted Vesper service in Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon. He look for the theme of his remarks the relation of man to God and man to man. The Bible shows plainly the relation of the human being to the Creator and in showing this is reveals the ideal attitude of man to man. In the beginning man was formed in the image of God, and being thus formed, was given a nature which had godly attributes.

There has been a question whether Christ's divinity differed from man's divinity. Not only is it true that the different does not exist. but that man's divinity is like God's is also certain. Bearing in mind, the, then, this similarity of nature, we see the force of the example which God sets before its. and to which the Bible so often calls our attention. God has all our virtues, love, patience, forgiveness, joy, and in Him we see the perfection of them all. The Bible, in some of its pictures of Christ's life, show us the keenest pain and suffering. but we see no impatience, no signs of weakness, nothing but infinite love and forbearance.

This conception of our relationship to God and of our likeness to Him shows how it is that when a man becomes a Christian and accepts God, God does not put new things into him but calls out what was already in him. The man may have been entirely unconscious of the qualities which appear in him after his conversion but the qualities were in his nature. They had simply never found anything in the outer world which called them forth. The nearness of God to man shows our duty toward him and toward our fellow - men.

The choir sang the anthems "Sanctus" from Gounod's Mass, and "These are They," Dykes. Mr. George Parker sang the solo, "In Native Worth from haydn's "Creation."