Rev. Dr. Francis G. Peabody preached in Appleton chapel last night before a fair sized audience. The choir sang the anthem "Christ is Risen," after which was read responsively the sixty-fifth Psalm. Dr. Peabody took his text from the third chapter of Philippians. the eleventh verse-"If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead."

The observance of Easter day has always been kept. At a time when the christian would not even observe the day of the birth of Christ, the day of His birth and resurrection into immortal life was sacred. In our day we may observe the resurrection of Christ as an historical fact-he may be risen in our opinions, but not in our lives. We are apt to confound real life and real death. The truths of the New Testament are not always before us; we do not realize that we may be in the best of health, and yet be utterly dead-that we may be dying and yet have an abundance of real life. Real resurrection for us means the change from the rule of the flesh to the liberty of the soul. We may in the present life "attain unto the resurrection of the dead," but we must ask ourselves if we are alive, if our hopes, ambitions and affections are set in the right way. Examples are before us constantly of men who have had this resurrection-men pure, and leading lives of courage and usefulness. We may in a way understand the nobleness of their lives, but we cannot really know the broadness of the vista which opens before them if we be not ourselves alive. If we are to understand the immortality of the soul we must have it. And after attaining it, we must light others to this way of life, this undying and eternal existence.

The choir sang "The Lord hath comforted His people," and Merrill, '89, sang a solo from Sullivan.