Dr. Francis G. Peabody preached in Appleton Chapel last night, taking as the text for his sermon the fourth and fifth verses from the fifth chapter of St. Luke: "He said unto Simon, launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a draught. And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all night and taken nothing; nevertheless at they word I will let down the net."

This occasion of the "draught of fishes" was not the first time Jesus had met Simon Peter and his companions. There on the shore of Galilee he had found them before and talked with them, but they, never realizing the scope and meaning of his message, had heard, and gone back, as though nothing had happened, to their old way of life. "Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a draught," he said.

In these new days of the twentieth century men are too apt, like the old Galilean fishermen, to live in the shallows of life. There is a tendency to superficiality in literature, in men's ideas of life and its meaning and in their conception of religion. As the words Jesus rang out over the blue waters of Galile, so they echo down through the ages to men today--"launch out into the deep!" For men to taste the fullness of life and its opportunities, to know the serene and awful depths of the ocean of the spirit of God this is Christ's message for the century that has just begun.