Appleton Chapel.

Last evening the Rev. Philip S. Moxon preached in Appleton Chapel. The sermon was upon the death of spiritual life. Many men who have come to a low degree of righteousness are characterized by bestiality and all the lower forms of vice, but there is a still larger class who have lost all power to distinguish between right and wrong in matters that are considered generally of very little moment; but this insensibility to spiritual things is fully as bad as is that which is popularly called vice.

There is in men a spiritual insight which is unerring and which must be followed. Christ saw, and knew, he did not argue. There is a Christly possibility in every man and all we have to do is to obey this conscience, which is above reason. It is the glory of man that he may know God. Nature shows God, but some men do not see any divine agency, because God is not in them. They have schooled themselves not to see, and so they will remain, forever, in the dark. When the voice of duty is no longer heard, then the soul is dead, although the understanding may remain. The sin of to-day is the insensibility to spiritual life. Men are asking whether life is worth living, but the souls of such men are dead. "What profits it a man if he gain the whole world, but lose his own soul?"