Appleton Chapel.

Appleton Chapel was completely filled last night by those who took advantage of the fine evening to hear the Rev. Lyman Abbott preach. Dr. Abbott took as his text, Matthews ix.: 22. The central idea of his sermon was that there is no purification without pain. The Bible, he says, dwells upon the remission of sin, rather than of penalty. Christ was a suffering God, for suffering is not imperfection, but the climax of character. It is suffering that reconciles man to God, and good men and bad men can be brought together only by mutuality of pain. The message then, of the New Testament, is that God stands knocking at the gate, suffering when we sin, and ready to receive us into His life when we are penitent. The choir sang the following selections: "I will always give thanks," by Calkin; "My God, I thank Thee," by Barnby; "All that God may give to thee," by Richter.