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May 26, igog. THE KIND ( Christian parents frequ* appointment and grief, th: who have been sent to pro pense, are returning home 1 entirely unsettled or posit cism. In the class room o Itual atmosphere of the col religious beliefs have beei tific assumptions, or have tional ridicule, and as a c youthful mind has been sh We frequently hear, as tude toward our traditional ditional advisedly) that it not fear the search-light ol we readily assent, with tw the traditional faith, whicl title to confidence, must sU until, by an intelligible proven to be erroneous. S religion, the old-time Gosn I And as an evidence of this in all branches of scholars character pay their rever faith. Another requirement, \vl and unassailable, is that si demolish the spiritual stru though it be but intellect pils, unless they can furi stead. To do so is in tell scientific and ttnscholarly Northmen wrecked the civ to supplant it with nothin savagery. Historians of a ism. Truth is progressive dency is to refine. It not being. It incites to ever tendcncv is to exalt the n< It leads upward as it leat dency of learning is towa in man. The course of its the direction of immortalil resists the suggestion tha existence and then vanisl refuge may attract a sordic The prospect of endless p truth and the realization o the well-balanced and ratic a right to rebuke and dent chosen strongholds. The question, then, wha mount. Will our boys and speculative adventurers in ignoble'notoriety ? Or will reverent, conscientious an who bring to the class ro quate and mature scholars a refined and ennnbl^i no Ipleter e^rasp of truth becau in Him who is its author] I THE PRESBYTERI DF COLLEGE. intly discover, to their disat their sons and daughters minent colleges at great ex : with their religious beliefs ively on the side of skeptir in the pretentious intelleclegc or university, cherished n opposed by radical scienbeen subjected to open irraonsequence the faith of the taken. an apology for such an atti1 faith (we use the word tramust stand on its merit and t modern learning. To this 0 provisos. The one is that 1 by its fruits has proven its ind unimpaired and unmoved demonstration, it has beer uch proof against evangelical el, has never been furnished , the leading men of learning ship and the leading men ol cut tribute to the Christiar lich we believe is reasonable keptical instructors shall no) cture of faith and hope, ever ually cherished by their pu lish something- better in its ectual vandalism. It is unr in the last degree. The ilization of Southern Europe g better than their inheritee! 11 ages condemn the vandale. It is elevating. Its tenIrishes the finer fibre of our higher ideals. Its righteous ibler qualities of our nature Is onward. The logical tenrd emphasizing the spiritual ? progress is unfalteringly in ty. The untrammelled mind it life simply means a brie! hing like a vapor. Such a 1 nature, but not a noble one rogress in the perception ol if possible attainment allures >nal mind. Such a mind has >unce agnosticism in its own it kind of a college, is para[ girls be under the tuition ol tent on some new species ol they receive instruction from d capable men and women om the furniture of an adehip, and also the example ol having a clearer and comise of reverence for and faith M. AN OF THE SOUTH. THE CHURCH C One of the commonest pi , opportunist. He is the man himself to the conditions abc i and shape those conditions. He is but the clay between masonry. He contributes n the world's knowledge, eff< position, place, wealth, and surroundings. He is not po: case he can not be. And tak ephemeral of the world's < tempered mortar in which crumbles in the crush or [ men's souls. i There are religious and C are the people who are alv i justing ourselves to the ti [ age," of the conditions in w ( sweet morsel under their ton | "we face conditions, not a t pie who forget that conditio! j 1.1.^A. r* 1 i ? r iiiiu mat uou nas given nis f 'litions. Tliey are the peop i "progress in truth," forgett the apprehension of truth < ; are the people who misinter t Word by conveniently maki ! notions and interpretation. make hasty generalizations, ; porary conditions and passii ally adhering to the great ? principles of revelation. 1 . roundings for God. I From its nature opportuni fixed principles except that may hardly he called a prim It lacks certitude. It take ; roundings altogether. If the a given condition ceases to b it finds a new setting. In < [ the certainty, the permaner i Gospel plan and the divine I be seized and used, and is G t pose, not that we may simpl t The churches of Scotland : lost several of their most i Marshall Lang, of Aberdeen i and intellectual minister of i son, Cormo Gordon Lang, and has become Archbishoj Scott, minister of St. Geori i tinguished minister of the h [ newly elected principal of i Edinburgh, is more widely 1 , him Dr. Robertson Nicoll sa^ and the most Christ-like ma t was in his daily work and dence of Christianity. Th i never lost their joyful conf owe this to him as much as 5 OPPORTUNIST. oducts of the times is the who seeks to accommodate >ut him rather than to make He originates nothing, i the stones of the world's othing to the sum total of ort, or results. He seeks success entirely from his sitive. In the nature of the e it all in all, he is the most :reations. Like the badly the stones are bedded, he fire of the times that try 'hurch opportunists. They rays talking about our admes, of the "spirit of the hich we live, who roll as a gue that hackneyed phrase, lieorv." They are the peois are themselves a product, people power to make conkli* \irlin fliltil' iliof fUnfft ^ '?? ?? ?iv/ niai ciiv.iv i:> ing the difference between ind the truth itself. They prct the adaptability of the ing it fit in with their own They are the people who being led astray by temig incidents, instcatl of loy, unchanging, fundamental 'hey substitute their sursm is changeful. It has no of accommodation, which ciple so much as a method, s on the color of its surk\r rlmnorp if n 1lo?rr?C \ATU~~. J ? e, its li.inds are empty until ;very way it is contrary to ice, the fruitfulness of the method. Opportunity is to od's gift to us for that purly fit ourselves into it. in the last fortnight have valuable leaders. Principal i, has long been a scholarly the Kirk of Scotland; his is in the Anglican Church p of York. Dr. Archibald ?e's, Edinburgh, also a disCirk, and Dr. Marcus Dods the Free Church College, known in this country. Of /s: "He was the best friend n I have ever known. He conversation a living eviere were many who have idence in Christ, and they i to anv."