Vesper Service.

Rev. S. M. Crothers preached at vespers in Appleton Chapel yesterday from the text, "The path of the just is as a shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day." He said, human life often seems to a man to be an anti-climax. A young man starts out in the world with high ideals, striving to be perfect, the best in everything, the superlative in all his work. But as he grows older and sees how hard it is to attain even mediocrity, his ideals usually fall. He drops from the superlative to the comparative. He is trying to do better. Later he is content if he obtains the positive, if he can do well, not better than anyone else. So it seems as if all through a man's life his ideals were falling lower and lower. Really he is coming nearer to the true way of looking at life as he grows older. So in spiritual life a young man cannot see the trouble so clearly when he is full of ambition and ideals, but only as he

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