The Rev. Washington Gladden spoke yesterday afternoon in Appleton Chapel, taking as his text "For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal."

The life of man on earth is like an April day. Sometimes the sky is cloudy with low hanging clouds, which in turn, feeling the warm infiuence of the sun, give way to this monarch of light, leaving great clefts in the leaden masses of cloud through which the sky shines clear and blue. In our daily life good and evil may not be mingled in equal proportion, nor can we judge the proportion of good and evil in the lives of our companions from exterior appearances, for many may be living under the blackest of clouds who are apparently enjoying their earthly life.

Throughout all our troubles and pleasures we must always remember that complete darkness never comes, that there is no time when there is not some suggestion of light. there are none to whom darkness never comes, just as there are none who have not their times of light, for God never leaves those who trust and follow him without some evidence of his presence.

Just as in days when the fog shuts down about us in dense clouds and we see the impenetrable wall about us which we can never dare to approach; so in life when we are surrounded by troubles from which it seems impossible to escape, we must always go right forward and we will find that as we advance towards the thickest of our difficulties, they seem to recede from us and gradually as we step out with more courage, they disappear entirely.

But the best of this April day comes in the evening when the clouds, scattered by a fresh west wind, float airliy away, reflecting the golden rays of the setting sun. This is the old age which we are to look forward to. He who walks with God has laid up for himself a crown of rejoicing which, if he received it not in this world, is so close to him that it is reflected on his brow in his last moments.

The choir sang the following selections: "Give Unto the Lord," by N. W. Parker; "Lord God of Abraham," by Mendelssohn; "Savior when Night," by Shelley. Soloist, Myron W. Whitney, Jr., '95.