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moment should be thus occupied. My aim is to show that the Bible ought to liave a place in the course of study of every Collegiate Institution — that the Bible in its original languages, its history, its philosophy, its theology, ought to be studied as carefully and thoroughly, and recited as regularly and faithfully as any text-book in any department of Literature or Science. With the view of illustrating and confirming this position, I invite your attention to the ends of edu- cation and the methods by which they are secured. And what is the end of education? To qualify for the more successful acquisition of material wealth ? Of a widely extended and brilliant reputation? for grasping and wielding successfully the sceptre of power? for deriving rpore exquisite enjoyment from sensual pleasures? surely none of these things. Surely no material good constitutes the great end of education. What then is it? I answer without hesitation: The great ultimate end of education is to fit man Claims of the Bible. 83 for accomplishing, to some good degree, the end of his being. Again the inquiry arises, " What is the chief end of man ? ' ' The answer to this question has been settled for at least two hundred years: "Man's

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