Niebuhr Addresses Overflow Audience

A record crowd of over 1300 jammed Memorial Church yesterday morning to hear a sermon by Reinhold Niebuhr, vice-president of the Union Theological Seminary. The ushers lost count after 1200 worshippers had filled Appleton Chapel as well as the nave and balcony of the Church, where they sat on the stop until a policeman required them to stand so as not to block the aisles.

Niebuhr's sermon, the text of which was the parable of the Pharisees and publicans, urged that goodness and self-realization cannot be truly attained if they are too actively sought after, and suggested that too sharp a distinction between good and evil was unwise, because "the taint of evil against which we contend is in us also."