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Appleton Chapel.

Dr. Everett preached last night in Appleton Chapel from the text "Charity Believeth all Things," from the thirteenth chapter of the first Corinthians. He said: This chapter gives a very beautiful description of charity or love. But the qualities ascribed to it here are hardly what would be considered desirable by the practical world of today. It says "love beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things." But for a practical man to endure everything and to believe everying would seem to him ridiculous. He rejoices in his cleverness and thinks that he is so sharp that no one can deceive him. But he deceives himself for what man could carry on his business without trusting anybody; he would not only narrow his business but he would make himself smaller and meaner.

Many men say that the days of faith are gone, that now belief is so broad and liberal that a man can believe or not believe anything, but really the broad faith is the best faith, while a faith confined and limited to narrow bounds, like that of the middle ages, shuts out the light. The broad unquestioning faith is the faith of love; there is a sort of faith taking things as a matter of course, believing that there is a God but perhaps not understanding or caring what sort of a God it may be. But the faith of love believes that there is a God who will order all things for the best, that it must be so because it is best. It believes in God as a mother believes in her son, because it loves Him.

The choir sang "In Thee O Lord," by Tours, "Jerusalem," by Parker, "Far From Their Home," by Woodward.

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