Rev. Phillips Brooks spoke to a crowded meeting of the St. Paul's Society last evening, upon the coming of the disciple Nathaniel to Christ. He had been following John but had come to wish for more than John could give him, and when Phillip told him that the Son of God was found he hurried to the new leader and at once opened his life wholly to the new influences of Christ.

It would be so much easier for men to live good lives if they only opened their lives to these influences as completely as Nathaniel did. A man seems, without these influences, to be blind to the fact that by living an honest, temperate, straight-forward life he is not alone developing himself and becoming a better servant of Christ, but he is exerting an influence for good on all around him, the effects of which will be apparent to him all through his life. Dr. Brooks said that lives of this kind are, if possible, even more beautiful in their close than in the time before; and an example of this is the Bishop of the diocese of Massachusetts. who passed away yesterday afternoon. Dr. Brooks said that it was a pleasure to him to speak for the first time about the Bishop after his death, to a gathering of Episcopalians, many of whom are closely connected with the diocese; and that the example of such a life as this was worthy to be studied and followed by all. The same kind of duty may not come to others, but such steadfastness in the performance of it, and such devotion to the will of God as was his, can at least be profitably imitated if it cannot be reproduced.