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so great, that it ought to be secured at all haz- ard, even though every college in the land should be baptized with the most intense sectarianism. And here I again invite you to listen to the eloquent words of Mr. Winthrop. Speaking of the university at Cambridge, he says: "Better, a thousand fold better, that a seminary like this should be under the steady, effective aye, or even exclusive influ- 120 A Busy Life. ence of any one religious sect, than that it should be without the influence of some sort of vital Chris- tianity. * * * But let us be cautious, that in attempting to shut out any one particular ray which may be imagined to predominate in our academic atmosphere, we take no risk of shutting out the glorious sunshine of the Gospel, and leaving the institution in this day of its highest intellectual advantages in a condition of spiritual darkness; Dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon." Again it is objected: "There is not time for so much religious instruction during the college course." Not time ! So much time is needed for the study of Virgil, Horace, and Cicero; of Xenophon, Homer and Plato, that there is no time for the Bible! So much time is needed for the study of lines and angles of quantities, negative and positive, known and unknown, variable and constant, that there is no

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