Part 9 (1/1)

”The progress grows more rapid,” says William T Harris, ”as the Christian spirit which leavens our civilizations sends forward, one after another, its legions into the field; for great inventions, as well as great moral reforms, proceed from Christianity”

No one can afford to be indifferent to the power and influence for good of the Christian college These are immeasurable The Christian Church and all the friends of huress and welfare must, more and es the leading minds of the nation, ill be able so to control the prevailing habits and hout the country as to secure the perious institutions

These truths may be enforced by many historic examples The Jesuits have always been eee part of Europe to the papacy by seizing and controlling the colleges and universities as fountains of power They had at one ties Theyovern communities and nations When only one in thirty of the inhabitants of Austria adhered to the papacy, Professor Ranke says that ”the Jesuits obtained a controlling influence in the universities, and in a single generation Austria was lost to the Reforained to the papal hierarchy”

In the sixteenth century, the Protestant King of Poland appointed a Jesuit minister of public instruction, who soon filled the professors'

chairs with members of his own order The ”scale was soon turned, and the doctrines of the Reforain recovered the ascendency”

In our own day, the influence of a college education is seen in the case of a nue, in Constantinople These students rekindled hope and courage in the people and revived the feeling of nationality in the hearts of the Bulgarians This prepared the way for a general uprising in 1876, the bloody repression of which brought on the ith Russia, which led to the liberation of the province Thus, influences descend with power froth for all noble efforts for human welfare Professor Van Holst, in his recent address, delivered at Chicago, said: ”The her plane-- favoring the cliher intellectual and hest order become every year more desirable--nay, necessary--for the preservation and the development of the vital forces of American democracy

Undoubtedly, to have them established is the interest of those ould frequent them, but it is still infinitely more in the interests of the American people in its entirety”

It is iood that coe It is quite evident that our colleges stand for the production of the highest manhood and womanhood, and their friends should rowth and usefulness It is the underlying forces at work for good in our colleges that insure the integrity and safety of our social and religious organizations Men and woe to lavish their gifts upon the colleges that labor for the ihest Christian character and activity He who consecrates his e erects a monument to the worth of the human soul, and perpetuates his own fae measure, the character of the persons who shall fill our pulpits, teach our schools, edit our papers, write our books, and give direction to all the political and social ers that ent Christian leadershi+p It is within the power of friends of the colleges to enroll araduates a vast areness of nificence of character will commend the in every land

Lord Macaulay once said that ”the destiny of England is in the great heart of England,” and we es is in the great heart of the Christian people of America, ill be more and more loyal to the sacred trust