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Vesper Service.

Yesterday afternoon at the Vesper Service, Dr. Lyman Abbott addressed an unusually large audience. He said: There are moments in life when one seems to rise entirely out of one's self. Sometimes it is due to a great sorrow, sometimes to a great joy. Such a feeling occurs so seldom that men smile when it is referred to: but I pity the man who has never felt this divine emotion. However, one must descend to earth to accomplish anything, and one must have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm carries respect with it. However much we laugh at Henry George and his schemes for abolishing poverty, at General Booth and his plan for helping the poor of England, this enthusiasm compels us to listen to them. But enthusiasm is not the highest test of a man; it is the ability "to walk and not be wearied," to plod along day after day, and not give up the fight. Yet the prophet tells us that we shall have all this, if we will but serve the Lord. The loftiest emotions will come to us, our enthusiasm will not die out and we shall receive the courage "to walk without being wearied." During the evening the choir sang the following anthems: I will Sing of Thy Power-Sullivan; Selections from Miserere by F. Boot; Come Unto Me-Coener: Soloist-Mr. Herbert Johnson, Boston.

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