"Domine Salvam Fac," from the Messe des Orpheonistes, Gounod

(Chorus of Thirty Students.)

"Hear My Prayer," Mendelssohn

(Mr. J. C. Bartlett.)

"The King of Love," Shelley

The crowd at the last vesper service of the year yesterday fully came up to expectations. The chapel was filled at five minutes before the hour, 30 that later comers had to stand in the aisles. Rev. Dr. McKenzie opened the service with a prayer. After the reading of the 34th Psalm, Rev. Dr. F. G. Peabody made an address on the text from St. John, 11th chap. and 45th verse: "But went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim." There is throughout the whole life of Jesus this continual contrast of society and solitude. Thus it was in perfect keeping that at this great crisis of his life, on the Thursday before Palm Sunday, Jesus should have turned aside to commune with himself. In the mental as well as the moral life we all need times of refreshment, quiet moments for reflection. It is for this purpose that these vesper services have been undertaken; to draw us apart a moment from the cares and perplexities of our engrossing daily life. Like those stations of the Cross on a "Calvary Hill" in Roman Catholic Austria, these services stand for some solemn thought, and give strength for each successive ascent until at last the summit is reached.