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"An exclusively intellectual education leads, by a very obvious process,to hard-heartedness and the contempt of all moral influences. Anexclusively moral education tends to fatuity by the over-excitement ofthe sensibilities. An exclusively religious education ends ininsanity, if it do not take a directly opposite course and lead toatheism."—EDINBURGH REVIEW.
1854
"We have been taught, consciously or unconsciously, intentionally orunintentionally, to seek rather what virtue gives than what virtue is;the reward rather than the service, the felicity rather than the life,the dowry, let me say, rather than the bride."—T.T. STONE.
"His practice was of a more divine extraction, drawn from the word ofGod, and wrought up by the assistance of his Spirit; therefore, in thehead of all his virtues I shall set that which was the head and springof them all, his Christianity; for this alone is the true royal bloodthat runs through the whole body of virtue, and every pretender to thatglorious family, who has no tincture of it, is an impostor. This is thatsame fountain which baptizeth all the gentle virtues that so immortalizethe names of the old philosophers; herein they are regenerated, and takea new name and nature. Dug up in the wilderness of nature, and dippedin this living spring, they are planted and flourish in the paradise ofGod. By Christianity I intend that universal habit of grace which iswrought in a soul by the regenerating Spirit of God, whereby the wholecreature is resigned up into the divine will and love, and all itsactions directed to the obedience and glory of its Maker."—MEMOIRS OFCOL. HUTCHINSON, BY HIS WIDOW.
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The weakness and helplessness of humanity, in relation to the fortunesof this life, have been a favorite theme with philosophers and teachersever since the world began; and every term expressive of all that isuncertain, insubstantial, and unstable has been exhausted in describingthe feebleness of man's power to retain in possession the good things ofthis life, or even life itself. However firmly the hand of man may seemto grasp power, reputation, or wealth; however numerous may be the bandof children or friends that surrounds him, he has no certainty that hemay not die friendless and a pauper. In fact, the most brilliant successin life seems sometimes to be permitted only that it may make thedarkness of succeeding reverses the more profound.
Weak and helpless as we may be in the affairs of this life, there is,however, one thing over which we have entire control. Riches may taketo themselves wings, though honest industry exert its best efforts toacquire and retain them; power is taken away from hands that seek touse it only for the good of those they govern; reputation may becometarnished, though