Dr. Peabody's Address.

The Rev. Endicott Peabody delivered a very interesting address to the St. Paul's Society last evening in 17 Grays. He took for his text, "Lord, to whom shall we go, Thou hast the word of eternal life."

I want this evening, began Dr. Peabody, to speak to you very informally. One sometimes thinks that he should speak on purity. Such sermons, if not entered upon with great earnestness, often do more harm than good. The apostles before coming to Jesus were trying to conform with the law of Moses. Jesus came to them and told them to be pure. They understood from that God was their father and loved them and would be with them forever.

The christian is the life that is lived in accordance with the life of the Saviour. You remember Luther; he was studying for the rest of his soul; he did everything so far as he knew, to obtain eternal life. He went to Rome, but there he found things in the same unsettled state as before. On his way home he heard these words, "The Just live in Faith," and this was the beginning of Luther's faith and his useful career.

When I left college, I had no thought of entering the ministry. It once occurred to me, however, that I should like to do more for the world than I was then doing, and so I began my study. Since that time when I read the Bible, those words, "Do something for thy brethren," seems to me to be the message from God to this world.

The most impressive thing to a young man is power. In reading the other day of the death of a Cambridge man who was at college with me but whom I hardly knew, it occurred to me what an unseen power this man had. There seemed to be a loving restlessness to his character; he wished to be doing others good, and this man gave himself up to Christ.

We too often ask ourselves if we believe in God, if we love Him. We know that if we receive Him into ourselves that he will give us power. Sanctify yourself for the sake of thy brethren is what you will find in the Bible if you will only take it and read it.