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formation of an elevated moral character. Any edu- cation that secures not this end, however varied and accurate the knowledge it communicates, however complete the intellectual training it affords, is indeed a very doubtful good. There are few present, I venture, who would not rather a thousand fold have their sons and daughters grow up ignorant of the knowledge, and untrained by the discipline of the schools, than that they should enter on life's busy scenes, in the possession of the most magnificent results of the most complete intellectual culture, yet destitute of moral principle the slaves of wills untaught to bow in homage before the supreme Lord. Men of commanding intellect, in positions of responsibility and influence, without moral princi- ple, are no blessing to any land ; a curse, a tremend- ous curse, rather. It was no canting bigot who said: "The intellectual power, refined to the utmost, and wholly destitute of benevolence, resembles but Claims of the Bible. 103 one being, the principle of evil." Such education makes its subject only a more polished and efficient instrument of Satan. In the language of Everett: "Other objects, important as they are, and filling in their attainment, too often, the highest ambition of parents and children, are in reality but little worth, if unaccompanied by the most precious endowment