The first service of the year in Appleton Chapel was conducted last night by Professor Peabody, Mr. Crothers, Dr. Donald and Professor Carpenter.

Dr. Parks preached from the text "Called to be saints," from the first chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans. Paul, he said, was called by God from a life of persecution and wrong-doing to fulfil God's purpose. The thought that he was thus doing God's work was to him always a comfort and a source of strength, and the same thought can be as much for all of us. Suppose three men came together to college, ond distinguished by a loving heart, one with no strong inclinations and without principles, and one with a desire to find out truth, and suppose each one followed his natural inclination without any guidance of religion. The first might try to work among the poor and interest himself in social reform. But he would eventually be sure to find that he could do little or nothing without the conviction that he was working towards some great end, and he would be able to bring but cold comfort to the unfortunate if he could not show them that they were all working in a great purpose.

Consider the second man. Suppose he gave himself up to his natural inclinations and got as much pleasure as he could in a worldly way. Sometime he will realize what he is making of himself and that his life is wholly useless unless he helps along the great purpose of all life.

The third man, the seeker for truth, will find when he has studied geology and chemistry and other sciences that there is underlying everything some great purpose. Nature is not thrown together hap-hazard. The greatest scientists have agreed that there is some purpose underneath all the world. So we all are working in God's great purpose and are called by Him. And more than that, we are "called to be saints." By sainthood we understand nothing weak or effeminate, but rather an ideal manhood. In saintliness there is much room for variety, but in all ages, under all circumstances, it must include a receptive and reverent frame of mind, a spirit of self-sacrifice, and a desire to fulfil the great purpose of God, to which work we are called. All of us may do this, and if we are temperate and diligent we may hope to attain this standard, and to do noble work.

Dr. E. Winchester Donald spoke of the services of the University preachers as pastors. The religious life of the University, he said, would never be all that it was intended to be, nor would the work of the preachers be all that it ought to be until they should be sought by the students in their office of college pastor. He showed that this duty was the happiest part of the preacher's duty. That it was a misconception to suppose that only those students who intended to be ministers could profit by the opportunity of meeting the University preachers personally - not as teacher and student, but as man and man. The preachers did not belong to the disciplinary part of the University, he said. They did not appoint certain hours for meeting the students in order to discuss the duties of the ministry with them; but rather to talk to them as one man to another; to give them the benefit of their greater experience in helping them out of any difficulty or temptation which they had met in their life at college. He ended by urging the students to take advantage of this opportunity for receiving counsel and advice from older men, who had also been through college, and had met and struggled with the same temptations themselves. The trouble was, he said, that most men came late for this advice, when the harm was almost past remedy, while if they had come before it might easily have been mended.

After Dr. Donald, Professor Carpenter made a short address