Rev. Washington Gladden preached at Vespers at Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon. He took as his texts the passage from Paul's letter to the Corinthians "Now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love," and from Ecclesiastes, "Therefore I hated life because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me; for all is vanity and vexation of spirit." These two writers, he said, have views so opposed to one another that evidently one of them must have been very much in the wrong. And is it not so that viewed from certain standpoints there seems to be an element of truth in the words of the old preacher? Does it not sometimes look as if all this world was vanity and vexation of spirit? Is the reward of this world worth the price we pay for it? The old preacher had tried all the pleasures that this world can offer or at least what are usually regarded as the pleasures that this world can ofers, and he had found them nothing but emptiness and folly. The trouble with him was that he mistook the means for the end, he regarded the temporary things of the world, such as houses and fine clothes, as all that can be found here; but Paul has found something more, something abiding forever, which cannot pass away. First he places faith. At once we are inclined to say this is not anything abiding or even anything real. Science, we say, recognizes no such thing as faith. But there we are wrong. The basis of all science is faith,- a trust in the natural laws, that as they have once acted, so they will always act. This cannot be proved, but we believe it. So are also hope and love very real and abiding. Thus Paul's view of life was more hopeful than the preacher's, because he had in him faith, hope and love, which are not vanity and emptiness.

The choir sang "Jerusalem, High Tower Thy Glorious Walls," by Parker; "Hosanna in the Highest," by Stainer; and "O Worship the Lord," by Watson.