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and directs the conduct of individuals and nations. He, too, should be pure, honest, upright — faithful to the trust committed to him — ever careful to exert his energies in the cause of religion and morality. Other classes of men might be specified. What has been said, however, is true of all to whom is committed any trust, who wield any influence. The 102 A Busy Life. well-being of society, the permanence and pros- perity of our free institutions, demand that they all should maintain an elevated morality. Men of wide and powerful influence are usually educated in the college. Here, to a great extent, are formed their principles. Here they are usually made what they are found to be through life. The system of educa- tion arranged for the college ought, then to con- template as an end of pre-eminent importance the formation of an elevated moral character. Any edu- cation that secures not this end, however varied and accurate the knowledge it communicates, however complete the intellectual training it affords, is indeed a very doubtful good. There are few present, I venture, who would not rather a thousand fold have their sons and daughters grow up ignorant of the knowledge, and untrained by the discipline of the schools, than that they should enter on life's busy scenes, in the possession of the most magnificent