Dr. Parkhurst at Appleton Chapel.

Rev. C. H. Parkhurst D. D. of New York preached to a large audience in Appleton Chapel last night on the relation of truth to the salvation of the world. The sermon was an impressive appeal for man hood.

The two men in Bible history who stand out prominently as scholarly trained men are Moses and Paul. Their lives were founded on truth and they furnish many suggestions for student life to-day. The mind is constructed with relation to a certain affinity for truth and the office of growing intelligence is to suit the mind more and more for this affinity. But mind of itself, unaided by another power, can accomplish but little good. The promptings of brain have to be tempered by the heart, and heart and brain together must save the world if it is to be saved at all. The men in whom great intelligence is combined with largeness of heart are the men whom God has chosen to do the great things of the world. Paul was used by God because he was humble but not for this alone. He accomplished so much for God because of the breadth of his nature.

God limits the work which he does through his agents to the capacity of those agents; he uses men according to their ability. Just as the light which we get from the stars varies with the size of the stars and the light in a room varies with the size of the windows; just as the amount of electricity which can be sent through wires varies with their size, so God through men expreses truths proportional to the breadth of their natures.

The student is in a position where his mind and heart are being trained beyond the point which most men reach and with this extra favor there comes an increased obligation. The student acquires an insight into human nature, an idea of the relation of things in the world; in short acquires ability. Salvation must be along the line of truth and the more ability a man has the more truth he sees and the more he can contribute to salvation. The position which the student should take, with his increased ability is perfectly clear then.

In the use of ability there is often found the same miserliness which we find in material things. The difference between the two is this, that the man rich in ability is not blamed if he does not impart his riches, while the man rich in money receives nothing but curses unless he shares it. Yet these riches, mental and material, are both alike in that they are but loans from God, and the scholar no less than the rich man is under the obligation to share his riches.

We often hear the opinion expressed that ministers should give their whole ability to their fellow men. True, but they should do this not as ministers but as men. Laymen cannot so easily escape from their obligations as this; every man should do as much for his fellows as the minister.

What is needed in the world is a greater number of men with vigorous minds and vigorous bodies. In our colleges and schools there are too many men whose instruction consists solely of words, men whose habits of life and whose personal appearance gives no inspiration whatever to their pupils, men veritably "curiosities out of museums." The same thing applies to journalism, to politics, to all the spheres of human activity. The great question before each of us is not what we shall do, but how we shall do it. We should evangelize our intelligence, choose our place and go to work with all the strength of our minds and hearts.