Chapel Services Yesterday

Rev. Paul Revere Frothingham of Boston, preached in Appleton Chapel last night, taking as his text the thirty seventh verse of the eighth chapter of Romans: In all these things we are more than conquerers.." To overcome temptations, to surmount obstacles, to be the conqueror in life's battle is seemingly to attain supreme success. And there is a strange sound in the word of Paul, be ye "more than conquerors." And yet in the history of the world's great battles he learns that there is, after all, something beyond conquest. A great military here is messured not merely by the completeness of his victory, but by the mercy and magnamity with which he uses it. The sublimest moment in Grant's career was not his victory over Lee, but the great-hearted sympathy for his fee which he showed afterward; there was conquest in the fearful wreck and destruction of the Spanish fleet off Santiago, but there was more than conquest in the act of the captain of the "Texas" who stopped the cheering of his men because the enemy were dying. In the moral fights of earth, Paul called the disciples of Christ to be "more than conquerors." He called them to conquer temptation and to be more sympathetic and more ready to help because they had succeeded; he called them to suffer and to be more patient and self-renouncing because they had suffered; he called them to forgive and be more ready to forgive again. In close and terrible temptations it is not victory alone, not the mere overcoming of the powers of sin that he asks, but he holds before them the lofty ideal that beyond and from the victories in life there shall be the new strength, the new power and the new sympathy in which alone "we are more than conquerors through Christ that loved us."