Appleton Chapel.

Rev. Leighton Parks at the Chapel yesterday evening took his text from the 21st chapter of Matthew. He said:

In this passage the things that strike us at once are first the great liberality of the householder, secondly his patience and the variety of his appeals. In our own life God has done a great many things for all of us, even for the most unfortunate. Consider, too, His patience, and the number and variety of His appeals.

First He sends conscience and feelings of joy, and opportunities to consecrate our lives to His service. Then He sends us a delegation, prosperity, works of art, music, books, and all the agencies of education and improvement. Each messenger says "Render to the Lord the fruit of His vineyard." He has these numerous messengers to appeal to each one of us, and we ought not to expect the same messenger that appeals to us to appeal as strongly to some one else.

But last of all the Lord sent His son saying: "Surely they will reverence My son." This is the appeal to the soul; but mark how the householder did not sit in judgement, but the husbandmen. So Christ stands at the bar of your poor human judgment and asks if you will receive Him. Each one must make a deliberate judgment. Perhaps, however, you will say that the question is not settled in this way. Your judgment is the result of the many little judgments that you have previously made. The boy who yielded to the influence of evil companions, disobeying the promptings of conscience, took the road to the crucifixion of Christ.

We all wish peace and happiness, but how can we secure it. The conflict between the good and the bad is torture, and Christ's pure life is a terrible reproach to us. Too often a man can't stand the struggle, and sinks himself deeper in his lusts to stifle conscience. This is the true killing of Christ.

But it is possible for us to accept this call. Two roads are open to us; the one leads to a shaming and crucifixion of Christ, and to the casting out of our lives all purity, truth and nobility. The other to a life of peaceful happiness with Jesus Christ.

During the evening the choir sang the following anthems: Magnificat and Nune dimitti, - Clare; "If with all your hearts" from - Elijah. Sang by Mr. William Macdonald.