Appeton Chapel.

Rev Daniel Merriman spoke last night at Appleton Chapel, taking his text from the nineteenth capter of St. Luke, where Jesus weeps over Jerusalem "because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation." This is o. e of two times mentioned in the Gospel when Christ shed tears; and His grief is charged with deep significance for us.

Our life here is a succession of visitations, some good, some evil; and it is for us to turn them all to good, to see our time and take advantage of it. The object of all teaching is to make people do this, but it is a hard lesson to learn. Our visitations often take the form of trials. The Paritans, in the midst of the hardships which everywhere attended them, yet seized the opportunity which they saw had come, and success rewarded them. How different was the outcome of the efforts of those who persecuted the Hugenots in Francel. Because they knew not the time of their visitation they laid waste their country, destroyed life, and ended by driving out the most useful branch of the French people. We are just beginning to realize what good is coming to us from the heroic efforts of those in our own country who saw their opportunity and in taking advantage of it, submitted to all the evils of a cruel civil war. History is full of such examples.

At present, when rapid changes are taking place in our conception of the truth, and God is constantly impressing us with new ideas of it, we should feel that the time of our visitation is come. It is a dreadful thing to see the failure of a young life. We can forgive the child who does not grasp his opportunities; but we can not pardon the youth, who, surrounded by loving teachers and with all possible advantages, yet fails at his first actual trial. He may have had his temptations, but they should have been incentives to virtue. His failure is terrible. May God, looking down on us as He did on Jerusalem of old save us from such failures by revealing to us the time of our visitation.

During the service the choir sang the anthems "Go forward," by Smart; "Jerusalem," by Henry Parker; and "Christian, the evening waits before thee," by Shelley.