osophy ? Besides, if religious instruction be at all of the importance it appears to be, it will not do to dispose of it thus summarily. 118 A Busy Life. Shall the Professor spend six days in the week drilling the student in the principles of general literature and science, deeming all this necessary to secure the knowledge and discipline the student needs, and never once open the Bible to teach there- from an infinitely higher knowledge than that to be found in any book of science or literature a knowl- edge absolutely necessary to develop that moral ex- cellence we have seen to be of such pre-eminent worth, deeming the instruction of the family, the Sabbath-school and the church, on a portion of one day in the seven, enough for all this? No, no a thousand times, no. Another objects: "' Colleges will then be sectar- ian." If by this it is meant that every college will advance the interests of some one denomination of Christians more than another, I grant it. Still more, I claim that in this sense ALL colleges, be they nominally what they may, are, and of necessity must be, sectarian. If, however, it is meant that the impart- ing of religious instruction is impossible without making the college an instrument for proselyting