A large laudience, completely filling Appleton Chapele, assembled last evening at the opening service of the college year. During the summer the Chapel has been made more bright and attractive by being newly frescoed and tinted in light colors.

Dr. Leighton Parks opened the service. Dr. Lyman Abbott, who preached the sermon, his last as a college preacher, took as his text, "We have found him of whom Moses in the law and prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph." From their earliest history down to Christ's time the Jews had looked with a broader or narrower vision for a deliverer of their race. This forward looking was the distinguishing feature of the Jewish religion. So that when so simple men as the shepherds heard the angels' song they needed no interpretation of the message. Confucius, Zoroaster and Socrates had all prophesied of some one to come who should relieve humanity. All men, even in our own day, are seekers, eager and earnest in their quest for something larger, nobler, and diviner than the present affords. It is the spirit which draws 3000 men to this place, which is the moving spring of this life.

The text says we have found these things for which the world has been looking. Foremost among these are the laws of society, high human ideals, knowledge of God, and power to make ourselves what we wish to be. We have found one who fulfils these aspirations, whose teachings, if applied, will solve the whole social problem. Socialists, Anarchists and all have their plans, but in Christ and the New Testament we find the principles and spirit which will make the world what we wish it.

For the individual also Christ offers the great object of their seeking. We find in him ideals for all, one to whom even skeptics have come to point as a perfect example. I would not set him in place of God. "I am the door," he says of himself; by him I would enter to know God. The whole world is looking for this knowledge; the world is an Athens and everywhere is the inscription to the Unknown God. But we worship no longer an unknown God. We have found Him; and in Him one whom we can love, reverence, and imitate, as well as the power to help us to realize in ourselves our highest ideals.

In closing, Dr. Abbott referred with much feeling to his term of four years as college preacher, which must now end.

Dr. Peabody then spoke briefly of the appointments of the Chapel for the year and of the opportunities offered to the students through the Board of Preachers. Two have withdrawn from the Board this year, Dr. Everett, who has been released from the academic service, and Dr. Abbott. Their places will be taken by Dr. John H. Vincent, Bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Rev. S. M. Crothers, a well-known Unitarian clergyman of Minneapolis.

Dr. Donald then spoke for the Board as a whole. We begin our duties, he said, thankful to work where there is so much that is strong, brave and hopeful.