Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-03-09

fact. It's bearing on this life is to be em.
phasized. It's most potent factor of &C.
countability Is to be inculcated. And
there is to be no atheism. no babbling of q
great force making for righteousness. But
a God is to be taught allwise and benevo-
lent; therefore personal being. His laws
are to be held up as giving TO man his rule
of life, and obedience to them to be set
| forth as mans highest duty. 'As to the
manner says Mr.. Stanford, Sin which
| this shall be taught, and whence the confir-
nations shall be derived, we are not pre-
pared to advance any thought other than
that they may be sought from every avail
able source that tends to throw light upon
the subject" The Bible is such source
and the very highest source, and here It is
put as textbook into the hands of every
professor and lecturer who may wish to re-
fer to il by chapter and verse. Further
more, church is to be built-is now being
erected-and in it men from all denomina-
tons may teach what they hold for truth
as between man and God, but not word
OF Why am this, or why am that" All |
this is right and unless ills to be denomi- |
national school, we see not how it could be |
more liberal. AS Presbyterian, with all |
my zeal for my own church and its sturdy |
ideas, heartily commend the university, |
and bid it God-speed.
Third-We want to say these words by |
way OF further encouraging men of great /
means 10 honor themselves and bless their |
State by providing means of education for |
youth. Our society has done wonderfully |
in the matter of buildingup schools for the
youth of both sexes, but hitherto it has
been bard, uphill work. Mills Seminary
and College is model of self-sacrifice,
mountain OF labor. Some denominatioual
schools have done well. State institutions
have spent vast sums of money with good
returns for the most part. But now we
seem to have come upon day of enlarg-
ing ideas, of grander provision, of broader
foundation. Private wealth is being turned
toward the noble uses of education. The
outlook is charming; and SO it should be
IN State like ours, situated on this far
western shore. with an attractive climate
With most generous soil, wooing and win
ming vast population, we ought to lay the
foundations of the grandest institutions of
earning on the continent; we ought to
nan our professorships with the ablest
men living; we ought to provide on hon.
)rsble terms The most ample scholarships
We ought to open the richest of libraries,
md determine that the vast intellectual
products of the world shall be at the hand
If all who wish to avail themselves of |
hem, whether the readers be rich or poor.
Yes, Mr.. Stanfords work is honorable
md glorious. Honorable TO himself, whom
III generations shall call blessed honora-
,le to his State, whose educational fame he
will aid to place in the forefront; honora-
lie to religion, whose holy truths shall be I
.nforced by his means, and glorious to all
Who pant for learning, as the hart pants
or the water brooks.
May the God of all peace speak blessings
lpon it, and give it from the start warm I
,lace in the public affections, multiplying
tudents and overshadowing it with favor
bile providences, until in time it shall be-
ONE widely known for its intrinsic worth {
nd greatly honored in the noble and use
ul men and women whom it shall seLd ,,
orth into active life.