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Appleton Chapel.

Rev. Washington Gladden preached in Appleton Chapel last night from a text taken from the sixth chapter of Romans: "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal lift through Jesus Christ our Lord." He said: We are all in one sense wage earners in that whatever we do brings its inevitable return. In obedience to natural laws if I put my hand in the fire it will be burnt, so if we do anything that is wrong the effect on our character will certainly be for the bad. Every act good or bad brings an equivalent compensation. But if we try to make this law of exact return the guiding rule of life we are sure to make a failure. Suppose a family tried the method of keeping an exact account of what each member did for every other-that no one should do any favor or kindness without insisting on a full return. Under such a system life would be perfectly impossible. So in every form of life we find that a law of selfishness, that is a life without love or self-sacrifice will be intolerable. But the law of love, to give freely to all of our best, makes life what it should be. Without love no life what it should be. Without love no life at all can exist. Sin is only a form of selfishness, and here we have "the wages of selfishness is death," but love which is the gift of God is eternal life.

Every man must live either by the law of wages, that is, giving just as much as you get and no more, or else by the law of love. A man who says he means to get as much out of the world as he can, and to give just as little as possible, is living by the law of selfishness, and does not really know what life is. But any man who gives everything for the world, and tries to help it as much as he can, has already eternal life, for he is living by the law of love. Every young man has the question to decide, which law he will take to guide himself by, whether he will use the world to get all he can out of it, or whether he will give his life for the world.

The choir sang: "I will always give thanks," Calkin; "Try me, O God," Roberts; "Like as the hart," Adams.

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