Professor Drummond's Lecture.

Last evening, Appleton Chapel was well filled with students and Cambridge people to hear Professor Drummond, of the Edinburgh University, deliver his address. It was distinctly a practical view of religion and religious work that is going on to day in Edinburgh, and which the movers are trying to start elsewhere. Three years ago the active work as started by meetings held on Sunday evenings under the directions of students, and the chief object has been the reconciling of intellectual and moral religion and the leading of a religious life in the university. The workers want the aid of those whom Prof. Drummond calls the "spectators," those who with Mr. Huxley are neither for Christianity nor against it, but are extra-Christians. Their aid is needed, and for them Prof. Drummond makes four terms : First, that he and his friends condemn all undue show of solemnity, all sanctimoniousness. The religion of a young man need notice that of his grandmother, but a practical every-day Christianity, doing its good in unostentatious ways. Second, there is no interference with work. Meetings are held on Sunday. Yet those have shown their effect on the 3,600 students at Edinburgh in the three years that they have been held. Third, there is no interference with athletics or amusements, and many of the athletic men are workers in the cause. Some have gone to live in the slums of Edinburgh, not to distribute tracts, but to help a falling man here with material aid, and to cure a sick child there. Fourth, and most important of all, there is no interference with speculative thought. The speculative thought, the philosophy, is for the few, but religion is for all. Let each one speculate as he likes. The kingdom of heaven has twelve gates, and every gate is a pearl. It matters not through which gate you pass. Your Sunday school teacher may enter through one, your friend through another. Do not stay out yourself because you cannot enter in the same gate with them. Act as Christians. Associate learning with doing and not alone with thinking. The true Christian religion consists in acting as you think Christ would eat if he were in your place.

Christiamty in three ways upon life. It leavens it, because it raises man and his surroundings out of the earthly considerations that engulf him; it is the half of life, because through its influence the life of cities is preserved. London and New York have places where religion has not come, and these are festering and rotten. It is the light of life, because by Christianity we may see the way to the real life to come.

The speaker then turned to college life, to the occasions to be made on leaving college. What should a man do with his latest? Ambition may urge him on. Sut the highest ambition is to serve others and minister to them, and this is what Christianity teaches. The danger comes from the chance that intellectual religion may take the place of moral religion and leave it standing. This cannot be and good come of it. Let the intellectual considerations have their place, and they but add to the man's Christianity by giving him stimulants and aid. But do not let them gain the mastery.

In closing Professor Drummond said that he and Dr. Smith should be happy to see the students at Holden Chapel to-night at 7.30 p. m.