The Rev. Arthur Brooks of New York conducted the services at Appleton Chapel last evening and took for his test the works from Isaiah, "What could be done to my vineyard that I have not done?" The speaker said that the test of a religion is whether it answers the demands of a man's nature. Man asks for but a word as a blessing from God, and in what manner is this message put before men(?) We do not want an answer to our demands which is so much divine and so much human, which divides itself into such components. Rather do we want such an answer as comes in the form of a living presence which inspires and helps us. Since we cannot improve upon the religion of Christ, let us use it. What Heaven is to be hereafter, we cannot imagine, but what it is now is a man of healthy mind and body.
The choir sang very acceptably the following selections: "Grant to us Lord," Barnby; "Save us O God," Samuel Webbe (1740); "I will mention the loving kindness of the Lord," Sullivan.
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