The usual audience gathered last evening in Appleton Chapel to hear Rev. George A. Gordon. He spoke from the text, I Samuel, ix, 3; and x, 1; Saul sought an ass, said the preacher, and found a kingdom. There is many a man who seeks a kingdom and finds an ass. I want to discourse the secret of the success of the one man and the failure of the other. Saul found a kingdom because he was in the line of duty. Faithful devotion to duty in the least things is the surest path to success in the greatest. This is abundantly illustrated in our own political history. Henry Clay, in spite of his brilliant abilities lost the presidency. Seward who was sure of the nomination failed, and Lincoln, who sought only to be true to his political principals, was brought to the place where God's best thought for him and the country was made fruitful. Illustrations of this same truth can be drawn from literature. Byron refused to bow to the moral order. He tried to reign supreme in the kingdom of the poetry of pleasure. The world has begun to pass him by. Milton faithfully devoted himself to the service of his country. He would write to express the truth. Ten dollars was the immediate reward of "Paradise Lost," but his present lasting glory has been won by it.

The selfish principle defeats itself. The opposite principle of which Christ is the great example he has himself set before us, "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Hold to the lowly duty, lose your life in self-sacrifice, is the lesson of the text to us.