When the chapel petition was first circulated, it was opposed on the ground that it betrayed a morbid sense of discontent on the part of men who were too young to know what they wanted; and a painful lack of religion in men who did know. It was claimed by many that the chapel petition was started by men who were insincere in purpose, and that making chapel voluntary would be equivalent to destroying the chapel service altogether. Even men like Dr. Brooks and Dr. McKenzie hesitated a long while before taking the step which was sure to come some day. The grand service on Sunday night - when almost as large an audience as that which assembled to hear Canon Farrar, was gathered in the chapel, showed that the students were eager to receive the new plan for religious worship. The noble words of Phillips Brooks - "We now give you religion, with the only foreign element which it formerly had, removed; we appeal to your humanity to preserve it. We appeal to you as men, not as students" - these words will never be forgotten by those who heard them at the time. It must be gratifying to the men who granted with doubt and fearing the almost unanimous petition of the students, to see the hearty way in which they join in the service and the numbers in which they attend it. If this enthusiasm be continued, and we do not doubt it is sincere. Harvard religion will not be an unknown quantity hereafter.