Rev. Gerge A. Gordon, of Boston, preached at Appleton Chapel last evening taking as his text, Genesis, 1 - 31: "And God saw everything that he had made, and behold it was very good."

There are two ways of looking at the world: one is that of the cynic and pessimist who maintains that the foundation of things is bad and that all so-called right and beauty is only a thin veil over it; the other view sees that God's judgment on his world is the right one and that the creation is surely advancing to perfection.

In condemning the world, men lift their own inventions to the dignity of God's creation. They impute to the Creator's laws the preventable evil and ugliness for which the human race is responsible and with regard to which it so shamefully neglects its duty. Again, the pessimist neglects the truth that this is a remedial world. Sin has in its company that which will eventually annihilate it. The sinner's conscience sets itself against him uncompromisingly; God's voice calls him from evil. Sin struggles hard but it is surely disappearing, and man's hope may well be strong.

In history there is only one opening through which God has been clearly seen - the life of Christ. He conquered evil and the world is being re-created. To those who do not see that God's thoughts are as far above man's as the heaven is above the earth, sin may seem dying too slowly. To the pessimist it may even seem gaining strength, but to the Christian, God's purposes are revealed in Christ. He sees the beauty and stainlessness of that character gaining the victory in the world and the new creation advancing when the world, concerning which God's judgment has never changed, shall reach its perfection.

The choir sang the hymnal, "Hark, Hark My Soul" - Barnby; and the anthems, "O Blessed are Ye" - Barnby; "But the Lord is Mindful" - Mendelssohn.