"And the word became flesh and dwelt among us," John I, 14, was the text yesterday evening of Professor Everett's sermon. He said: What does the world owe to Christ, - and what do we owe to Him? I shall make, only incidentally, reference to the larger theme, and glance at certain of the larger aspects of the lesser theme.

If Jesus is to be regarded as in any special sense the word, the thought to be manifested must be fundamental and central. It must primarily represent not any truth about life but life itself. This universal and central truth must stand for the life of men in relation to their common source and in their relations to one another. The truth must be uttered in such a form that it may be universal and eternal.

Jesus taught the loftiest moral and religious truth, and embodied this in a life which gave it power over the hearts and lives of men. We have received from Him our highest thought of religion and of duty, and this thought has come to us warm and living through his personality. If religion and duty are of more vital importance to us than anything beside, then we owe to Him such a debt as we owe to no other.

When we try to sum up his teaching in a formula it seems like the uttering of common places. He spoke of God as the loving Father, of religion as an answering love which tries to shape the life into conformity with the divine ideal, of duty as being fulfilled in love. In His teaching religion and morality were so interfueed, had become so undissolably blended with one, that they can not be severed even in our thought. Men sometime speak of the sermon on the Mount as though it were merely a system of ethics. Every word is transfigured by religious faith. Each word is luminous with the thought of God.

These were the most revolutionary thoughts ever uttered; the living of them brought Jesus Christ to the cross. However imperfectly recognized they have been transforming the world ever since.

In religion and morality the world might seem to have advanced far beyond the teaching of Jesus. The science of Political Economy has arisen, and with it we sometimes think there has originated an entirely new kind of charity. But charity and religion when once their highest truth has been uttered remain simple and unchangeable. The world changes and these elements have to penetrate new facts and new conditions with their power. The two commandments in which Jesus summed up the teaching of the law, love to God and love to man remain today the final utterances of religion and morality.

The choir sang the following anthems: "Come Holy Ghost." - Dowland. "Lord, for Thy Tender Mercies Sake." - Farrant. "Turn Thy Face from My Sins." - Sullivan.