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preferences. And here let me again quote from the earnest words of Professor Turner: " Christianity is no more sectarianism than the law of gravitation is, and it is equally demonstrable that the world is in- evitably Cossack without the one as it is chaos Avith- out the other. The world has long enough left this Christianity to swing and dangle in mid-air, among mere probable truths, or buried it a thousand fath- oms deep under the accumulated mud and slime of skeptic, priest and sect." Suppose, however, it is true that colleges can not impart the needed religious instruction without becoming sectarian ; what then ? Unhesitatingly and emphatically I answer, let them be sectarian; sec- tarian a thousand times over, rather than unchris- tian. I do believe the importance of a complete and thorouo^h course of reliofious instruction to be so great, that it ought to be secured at all haz- ard, even though every college in the land should be baptized with the most intense sectarianism. — And here I again invite you to listen to the eloquent words of Mr. Winthrop. Speaking of the university at Cambridge, he says: "Better, a thousand fold better, that a seminary like this should be under the steady, effective — aye, or even exclusive — influ- 120 A Busy Life. ence of any one religious sect, than that it should