The congregation which assembled in the chapel last evening to listen to Dr. Phillips Brooks was the largest that has been seen this year at any of the college services. Those who were present were well rewarded. Dr. Brooks preached a sermon that was marked throughout by great sublimity of thought and by a beauty of expression that was often poetic. The music of the was often poetic. The music of the choir was above the usual average; it included the anthems, "Hark, Hark, my Lord," by Shelley, and a "Magnificat," by Martin.

Dr. Brooks spoke of the necessity for the strong man of reverence, of obedience and of self-sacrifice. The reverence which men feel toward God must be more than a pleasing sentiment: it must be a deep, powerful influence coming from a sense of the incomprehensibility of God and working to save the world from shallowness and failure. It is to be left neither to saints nor to cranks. The child must have it; the scientist and the mechanic. By reverence alone, which is the hiding of the eyes before the mystery and the majesty of God, can we know and see God. This deep feeling of reverence does not come from palsied inactivity, but from steadfast work. The more we serve God, the more sublime and mysterious He becomes and the more we discover the significance of our reverence. The man who forgets himself in his work, who does not waste his energy by dividing his thoughts between himself and his work and who does not banish all truth from his toil by dreams of paltry fame-this man finds himself at length possessed by God and wins from his own obedience the unsought, unexpected success. With this self-renunciation, with this active obedience is joined reverence, and we behold the man rising almost to the level of Christ.