Rev. Howard N. Brown of Brookline, preached at Appleton Chapel last night from the text, "That which thou sowest it is not quickened, except it die," taken from Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians. Immortality, he said, is something in which many people find it hard to believe. It seems to them unnatural and as its truth can not be absolutely proved, they refuse to accept it. Yet the belief in immortality is something necessary for the existence of life on earth. What would all that we do here amount to, what would be the inducement to work and patience, if there were nothing to look to beyond the grave? Look a little more closely at nature and at history. Has it not often happened that what has seemed to come to an end and to have accomplished nothing has really been of great value? If we look at the mission of Christ on earth, we see a young peasant collecting round himself a band of disciples, gaining considerable fame by his teaching and by his wonderful works. Suddenly he is seized by the authorities and put to an ignominious death. All his followers are scattered and all his teaching seems to amount to nothing. His enemies are satisfied that his influence is destroyed. Yet that influence, intensified by His resurrection, in less than three centuries became the greatest power of the world. Again and again has history shown us this same thing. A work coming apparently to an end in total failure only to rise in altered form, and to go on extending its power far beyond what the originator could have hoped.

When in the world of nature we see the perfect working of the law of the conservation of energy, how no atom of matter, no particle of energy can ever be destroyed or lost, is it natural to suppose that in the spiritual world a spirit that has been developing for many years, that is the result of immeasurable labor and the effect of many influences can all be destroyed and blotted out of existence by the blow of a dagger? Is it not rather natural that what is so infinitely more valuable in the sight of God than the energy of the sun should be preserved?

The choir sang: "Oh The Golden Glowing Morning," by Warren; "Light's Glittering Morn." by Parker; and "I Am He That Liveth," by Oliver King.