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his fellow man, he must understand well those eter- nal principles in accordance with which alone man's most momentous interests can be successfully pro- moted. He that lives a life worthy of a man a life that will at all answer the demands of the end of his being must know all this. It is absolutely indis- pensible. Now, where shall this knowledge be found ? Cer- tainly not in the speculations of Plato or Aristotle; certainly not in the ethics of Cicero or Seneca. The brightest genius that ever soared through the bound- 86 A Busy Life. less fields of immensity, baffled, disappointed, hum- bled in his vain attempts to find out this wisdom, is compelled to confess: ' ; Such knowledge is too won- derful for me; it is high; I can not attain unto it." We must go and sit at the feet of him who spake as never man spake, and learn from the simple, yet sublime words that fell from his lips. We must find this knowledge, so necessary, in the " Word of Christ." If, then, that instruction, essential to qualify man for accomplishing, to any good degree, the end of his being, is given at all our colleges, the Bible must be our text book. I have said that the knowledge derived from the study of the Word of God is more important than that derived from the study of all the other subjects