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praise are closed, the truth in which he would find h and strength he perhaps never knew at all, or only 1 What then? Many instances we have where the se extraordinary college man has given up all his study has dwindled into the most ordinary lawyer, preacher, Are there not plenty of professional men, with whom s is a thing of the past, and who are now not living up interest of their acquisitions, but upon the very capital a lated in their past school-days? And yet, as if for apol their indifference now, they are ready to refer you to their and honors which they had once received in the days go

Even the ministry is crowded with men who do not stu who are living on the deference and applause of their c gations. They have learned the trick in college, of w for a wrong motive and they do it now. The devil these men not to search too deeply into the hidden mys of God and so he cheats them into the notion that popu is the great thing. But Emerson, if we remember him ri says, "Popularity is for dolls." How disgusting, how beli it is to think, that Christianity is only popularity run Think of your true preacher, Frederick Roberston for inst Principal Tulloch remarks of him, that "he seemed to hi at times to do so little good, and the buzz that besets popul in the pulpit rung painfully in his ears. It was impossib offend him more than to speak of him as a popular pread He hated the idea. There was to him a sort of degradatio it."

Then again men study from a sense of duty. They g far as they must; no further. There is something very un teresting about such students to say the least, if they are entirely uninteresting. You can make them study anythi and everything and they are always ready to submit to auth ity without inquiring whether the authority be right or wro Many a man studies in college only what is assigned to h entirely unconscious of the world of knowledge around hi It is all well enough to tell your son and daughter to study o

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of a sense of duty to parents, but then it must not be forgotten, that Christ said that "he that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me." Even a child cannot be taught too soon that it must love Christ more than father or mother. So much then for these two classes of students-the man who studies from a sense of honor and the man who studies from a sense of duty. We can dismiss both of these. think that they are the right kind of students; think that that is the right kind of student who Truth before him, with all that that word means, looks at it steadily, tries to see it in the right light, so that the more he looks at it the more he wants to look at it; the more he gains possession of it, the more it gains possession of him, until it may be said of him, in a greater or less degree, that he is "Haunted forever by the eternal mind."

This then is your true student; not the man who, through grades, prizes and honors, hopes to gain possession of the truth, but the man who, through the possession of the truth, receives his grades, prizes and honors. When a man has the Truth, he has all and does not care for more. There is something about it that evades analysis. Its essence is the joy and life of every student. Language is "Fossil Poetry," but then, too, Language is fossil life. And this life was in the beginning and has been preserved for us to the present time. And every genuine student, who has helped the world along, has helped himself freely to this life. "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God." why Language is "fossil poetry," "fossil ethics," "fossil history." The Truth has in it Life; "and the life was the light of men." And Light is inspiration.

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And here lies the secret of great Teachers. They are inspired, and they teach us by inspiration. Their methods of teaching are their own. In fact, they have no methods. All that they do is, they show us their love for the truth. They live upon the real essence of the truth and understand its vitalizing qualities. They know how it has helped them and how it will

help others. Teaching and Preaching by inspiratio above, is the salvation of the world.

We know that it is a hard lesson to teach, to your and women, not to speak of boys and girls, to love the for its own sake. Yet it is a lesson that must be taugh learned. The Christian Church has been trying to inst lesson for many centuries. And wherever its work has and is now genuinely done, it always teaches but one prin you must accept the Truth in and for its own sake.

It is also the inspiration-side of Culture that makes a say what he ought to say, but which he would not say pe after long consideration. If Burns had perhaps taken consideration his attainments, his culture, he would not favored us with his intense songs. Indeed, we are told on authority, that after he had "read more widely in En Literature, he acknowledged that, had he known mor would have dared less, nor have ventured on such unfreque by-paths." A man has a right to say, not what he likes to but what he loves to say. Where his treasure is there will heart be also. And the world will soon find out whether treasure be worth preserving or not. Speak what you hav say with all your heart, though it has been said many times fore. The world does not need or want New Truths, but rat Old Truths stated freshly and earnestly as if they had j dropped down from the place above with all their origin meaning.

It might seem as if I had laid too much stress upon th Religious side of Culture as the inspiration of the studen But what we want now is more inspiration and less machinery All great work must be done as Plato's man must write Poetry According to Jowett's translation, Socrates says to Ion: “A good poets, epic as well as lyric, compose their beautiful poems not as works of art, but because they are inspired and possessed * * * For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been in spired. When he has not attained to this state

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oble words in which poets speak of the actions which they ecord, but they do not speak of them by any rules of art; they e inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and at only."

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So far, then, I have only spoken of one side of Culture, Religion. The other side, Knowledge, yet remains to be oticed. It is a hard matter to speak of them separately. Religion is knowledge, and knowledge is religion. ightly cultured man you cannot tell where his religion begins nd knowledge ends or where his knowledge begins and religion ends. A cultured man must be a Christian scholar and a scholarly Christian. Religion is to knowledge what ire is to fuel. Some men have seemingly enough fire, but wery little fuel. Others have a great deal of dead fuel with a light fire under it. Others again have once had a fire well started, perhaps in their school and college days, but have neglected to put on fuel, so that to-day they give forth very little warmth, The normal student is he who in his preparatory stage becomes thoroughly fired up and who then keeps on feeding this fire all through life. The world is an iceberg and can only be melted by the warmth which comes from its enthusiastic students.

Knowledge has for its domain, man, nature, God. This would be a good thing for men to remember, who have looked at one subject for so long a time that they cannot imagine how there can be any truths worth knowing outside of their specialty. For instance, a chemist or biologist, from the exclusive study of those branches, may conclude that that is the only knowledge reliable, based upon investigations of natural laws and forces. What a happy thing for such, if they could be freed from the bondage of their conceits, and be brought out into the open fields of truth, "to view the landscape o'er." A specialty is in the intellectual world what a large city is in the geographical. You will jump to a wrong conclusion, when, through ignorance

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of Europe, Asia and Africa, and a knowledge of you speak of your own country simply as worth ing in. You must be a cosmopolitan besides being an ican. If not in reality then in spirit. We believe tha men cannot know everything, yet that every man shou simply know one thing, but a great many things. cannot understand your own specialty rightly unless y it in its relations to other kindred branches of knowledge. cannot study theology rightly by simply studying the You must also be a student of poetry, of history, of pl phy. You cannot understand natural law without the h spiritual law. James Russell Lowell, in his Harvard ad seems to me to clear up this whole matter. He says: sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keen particular."

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Religion and knowledge, then, these are the two things constitute culture. Or I might use a word which is both common and more significant-Christianity. Christianit culture and culture is Christianity.

Two or three things remain yet to be said. 1st) That a cannot possess culture, but that culture posesses, that is, ta possession of a man. He is not simply to refer to relig and knowledge, to the incarnation, to redemption, to Plato a Shakespeare as great great things and names, which he h often heard and read about. But the truths of the carnation and redemption, of Plato and Shakespeare, m take hold of the real life of the student and enter into being. It is the difference between the superficial and de man. If If you would take the length and the breadth of son men, and multiply them together, their superficial conten would be more than the product of their length, breadth an depth, their solid contents. The one man puts on culture as sort of a varnish, a gloss; the other man absorbs it. You need not tell men how many books you have read, for it will soon be found out how many you have digested. The more and more you associate with some men the shallower they

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