be without the influence of some sort of vital Chris- tianity. * * * g^^^ \qI ^^g i3e 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 time for the study of man's relations to his fellow man, to his God, to eternity! So much time is needed for the philosophy of things created, that there is no time for the philosophy of the Creator! Away with such absurdity ! Let tlie mighty themes of God's own book have their due place in the col- lege curriculum, crowd out thence what it may. Can it for a moment be supposed that the student would sustain any loss who would read a little less of Livy Claims of the Bible. 121