Dr. Lyman Abbott of Brooklyn, conducted the vesper service at Appleton chapel yesterday afternoon. He preached a short sermon, taking his text from I. Corinthians, iii., "Let every man take heed how he buildeth." We are free to build whereon we like provided that in the foundation there is strength, and a means of upholding us. No matter what sect we take as our guide and to what we pin our faith so long as the ground work be a true religious feeling. We have the whole world of thought and motive open to us; and all the good and bad feelings which we have may be turned to good account if they be only consecrated to the right. All the fortunate and seemingly unfortunate occurrences in our life are closely connected with those actions which we chose from the whole world to perform; and these occurrences are God's own. We belong to God, and thus all the righteous hopes may be ours, if we receive them from Him and cherish and consecrate them to Him.
The choir sang: "Hearken Unto Me,"- Sullivan; "Now we are Ambassadors," (duet from Mendelssohn's St. Paul) by Schwartx, L. S., and Merrill, '90; "The Shadows of the Evening Hour," -Barri.
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