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he cheered them on in their life-work. 86 A Busy Life. The college founded in prayer as a Christian col- lege for imparting Christian education and culture, was carried out by Dr. Wallace to the fullest extent of his abilities, consecrating his heart, mind and body to the great work of his life. The theme of his inaugural address in his induction to the office of president, was the "Claims of the Bible as a Text Book in the College Curriculum," and the noble utterances in that address but foreshadowed the wT^rk of his life. He defined education to be to fit man for accomplishing to some degree the end of his being, which end was to " glorify God and enjoy Him forever." Said he, "Shall the professor spend six days in the week in drilling the student in the principles of general literature and science and never once open the Bible to teach therefrom an infinitely higher knowledge than that to be found in any book of science and literature, a knoAvledge necessary to develop that moral excellence we have seen to be of such pre-eminent worth ? No, no : a thousand times, NO! If they cannot do this without becoming sec- tarian, what then ? Unhesitatingly and emphatically I answer, Let them be sectarian; sectarian a thousand times over rather than unchristian." He concluded this address in these words: "From out of one

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