Nobody who attended chapel last evening felt unrewarded. Dr. Abbott preached a sermon that held throughout the attention of his hearers. His text was from the twenty-third chapter of Matthew; "Be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren." In this text are found the three doctrines that govern the progress of humanity, the rise of democracy, the history of Christianity, three developments dependent upon one another. These doctrines are that we have one "Master, even Christ," that no man is master, that all men are brethren.

It has taken us many centuries to understand these truths and even today we seem not to realize that all men are brethren. The Jews of old knew that God alone is master, no man else, and in a way recognized that all are brothers. For many democratic principles were their possession, notably the right of universal suffrages and popular education. Then came Christ and taught his disciples that all men rich and poor, are before everything else brothers.

By the sixteenth century men had gone far enough to feel that there is one Master, Christ, that all are bound by one loyalty to him, that man's power lies in his own faith. They were still bigoted but they were democratic in that they recognized only God's power, that it is belief that binds men together as brothers, and that all government should rest on public opinion.

Then arose the problem of combining this liberty of a common brotherhood and this order, depending on loyalty to God. For order alone is despotism, and liberty independence is anarchy, unless combined with order. There is no independence, all men are dependent on one another, and the closer the bond the better men they are. The aim of our Revolution was to combine the various elements that had settled America's shores, from the Puritans in Massachusetts to the Huguenots in Carolina. The Rebellion made the negro our brother.

We are not yet, however, perfect brethren, for we have the problems of immigration, of labor, that the gap between rich and poor may not be widened. We are not bound together as brothren, until we can have a democracy industrially. Government, too, is still to progress to a power of common, fraternal control. We have passed from despotism to individualism and are on our way to fraternalism.

Most of all do we need a brotherhood in the church, and this we are sure to have. Even now we are beginning to feel that Protestants and Catholics are brethren in that they are all Christians, and even that Christians and agnostics, who believe in the eternal goodness and charity, are brethren, as all are striving to better their fellowmen.

Bryce has said in The American Commonwealth, that a free government has always prospered most among a religious people. But more than this without a people who are religious, who have a common brotherhood, there can be no free government.

The choir sang the following: "Arise, shine, for thine light is come," - Eleveyn "Our Soul hath patiently tarried" - Page Mr. J. D. Merrill sang the solo "The rain cometh down" - West.