and penalty ; a pure and heavenly morality, the real- ization of which, in heart and life, assimilates man to his God. And all through its sacred pages are scattered motives to the noblest life man can live, drawn from the depths of hell, the heights of heaven, 88 A Busy Life. the remotest eternity. In the former, the student is led up the gorgeous avenues that lead to the tem- ple of Divine truth; he is bidden walk round about it; he is shown its foundations, deep and solid, of massive granite; its pillars of polished marble; its beautiful proportions and lofty turrets. Perhaps he is permitted to stop a moment at the threshold, glance Avithin, and catch a glimpse of the magnificence treasured there. In the latter he is led through its halls, along its corridors, bidden repose in its alcoves, at every step shown the beauty and glory that adorn it, and taught to bow in homage before the God who manifests his presence there. Is not this much the more desirable? I submit it to the calm judgment of any clear-headed and honest-hearted man, does not this knowledge excel in importance the knowledge of the whole range of literature and science found in the most extended College curriculum, by a measure whose length from first to last is infinity ? A man may dispense with the former, but it is only at a price no man can afford to pay that he neglects the latter.