VICE IN COLLEGES.

ICE and immorality, and the promptings of an

irreligious heart, stand in direct antagonism to all true progress in knowledge; and under their influence, whatever knowledge may be acquired is shorn of its divinest beauties. May all university and college faculties, then, hunt and scourge these pests of literary institutions from their precincts; not necessarily by the exclusion of the offenders, not necessarily by penalties, but by opening to their pupils loftier and nobler views of human duty and destiny, and of the soul's capacities for excellence; or, as Dr. Chalmers so beautifully expresses it, "by the expulsive power of a new affection."

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NO TRUTH USELESS.

matter how seemingly unconnected with human affairs or remote from human interests a newly-discovered truth may appear to be, time and genius will some day make it minister to human welfare. When Dr. Franklin was once sceptically asked what was the use of some recondite and far-off truth which had just been brought to light, "What," said he, "is the use of babies?"

CONNECTION OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION.

HE grand object, the main and chief thing, in

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which colleges should respond to the demands of the age, pertains to the intimate and indissoluble union and connection which God has ordained to exist between science on the one hand, and religion on the other; and by religion I mean the great ideas and affections pertaining to human brotherhood, and to practical obedience to the precepts of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

WEALTH OF NATIONS.

write a work on the "Wealth of Nations,"

and say nothing of the health, education, or morals of the people at large, is as though a man should write a work on Mechanics, and ignore the lever, wheel, and axle, pulley, screw, inclined plane, and wedge.

PARENTAL LOVE.

THE Creator has so ordained, that, when the

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offspring of each animal, "after its kind," is brought forth into life-then-in that same hour without volition or counsel, flames up in the breast of the parent, as from the innermost recesses of Nature, a new and over-mastering energy — an energy which enters into the bosom like a strong

invader, conquering, revolutionizing, transforming old pleasures into pains or old pains into pleasures, until its great mission is accomplished. On this instinct the very existence of the races is suspended, and therefore it is made strong enough to sustain them all.

In cultivated and Christianized man, this animal instinct is exalted into a holy sentiment. First, it is true, swells up the blind passion of parental love, yearning for the good of the child, tortured by its pains, chained to its pleasures. But this vehement impulse, strong as it is, has not been left to do its work alone. It summons and supplicates all the nobler faculties of the soul to become its allies.

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PARENTAL CONSCIENCE.

HAT is not conscience, but selfishness, which says to a child, "You owe your being to me." Conscience says, "It is I who have struck out a spark which is to burn with celestial radiance or shoot out baleful fires, and I am bound to purify and perfume the flame I have kindled." Conscience says, "Out of nothingness have I worked unknown and incalculable capacities of bliss or of misery, to be enlarged and become more and more intense for years, and lustres, and eternity."

DISINTERESTED LOVE.

HE soul of the truly benevolent man aoes

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not seem to live very much in its own body. Its life is made up from the emotions of others.

It migrates into the bodies of others, and identifies its existence with theirs.

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THE SOUL one.

LL minds have the germs of all the faculties.

The anatomist who understands the structure and parts of one human body, understands the structure and parts of all. The surgeon does not need to study the limb on which he is to operate; he has studied all its parts on other limbs. So in all human minds there is the same number of faculties. Were any wanting, or were there a redundancy in any individual, that individual would be a monster. There are great differences in size, in proportion, in structure, in color, in different individuals, but all are made after one model: So in the human soul there is the same number and kind of faculties, but differing in proportion, in ascendency. Herod and Howard had the germs of benevolence and power, yet in Herod the love of power bore sway, and when he knew that there was a child in Judea under two years of age who might

endanger the stability of his throne, he made weeping and lamentation in Israel - Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they were not. But in Howard the sentiment of benevolence predominated, and from his day and by his beneficence, the records of human suffering will be abridged in every age while the world stands.

LOVE OF TRUTH AN ATTRIBUTE OF THE INTELLECT.

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UCH of the welfare of every generation depends upon the working capacity of the intellectual faculties. If the intellect cannot be trained to operate with mechanical precision, its powers of discrimination between truth and error may be greatly improved. The intellect has an elective affinity for truth. It instinctively repudiates known error. The most depraved wretch does not love false conclusions for their own sake.

ERRORS OF EDUCATION.

THE unpardonable error of education has been,

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that it has not begun with simple truths, with elementary ideas, and risen by gradations to combined results. It has begun with teaching systems, rules, schemes, complex doctrines, which years of