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felt to be out of place in the college curriculum. Little by little it was eliminated, until it came to be a fact, melancholy yet true, that few of our colleges deserved the name of Christian. And even at this day, in many institutions in our land, the student may comply with every requisition necessary to ob- tain his degree, and receive no regular instruction in Bible truth. Such a course cannot but be most disastrous in its consequences. Are we not now reaping the bitter fruits of this policy? To what are the troubles that have shaken our political fabric to its very centre, due, more than to the complete destitution of moral principle among many of our public men ? and to what is this fact owing but to the godless system of education that has prevailed in 112 A Busy Life. time past? The experiment has been tried in India, under circumstances of peculiar interest. Let Dr. Duff tell the story. The following statement was made in 1835: "About eighteen years ago there was founded in Calcutta a college for educating Hindoo youth in the literature and science of Europe, apart from religion. The seminary has been attended by persons of rank, wealth and influ- ence in society." The intellectual training was thorough, but no instruction in morals or religion was allowed a place in the institution. And what

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