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should understand that the highest

shoulu uhucrstano tnat the highest
school of medicine is the school of
Christ, which declares that goodness
is profitable unto all things, having
the promise of the life that now is n
well as of that which is to come" So
il you start out two men in the world
with equal physical health, and then
one OF them shall get the religion of
Christ in his heart and the other shall
not get it, the one who becomes a son
of the Lord Almighty will live the
longer. with long life will l satisfy
him and show him my salvation"
Again | remark that goodness is
good for the intellect. i know some
have supposed that just as soon as
man enters into Christian life his in
tellect goes into a bedwarfing process.
So far from that, religion will give new
brilliancy to the intellect, new strength
to the Imagination, new force to the
will and wider swing to all the intel
lectual faculties. Christianity is the
great central fire at which philosophy
has lighted it's brightest torch The re-
lipion of Christ is the fountain out of
which learning has dipped its clearest
draft. The Helicon poured forth no
flow from under the throne of God
clear as crystal. Religion has given
new energy to poesy, weeping in DR..
Ioung's Night Thoughts" teaching
in Cowper's Task" flaming in Charles
Wesley's hymns and rushing with
archangelic splendor through Milton's
paradise Lost"
Now, l commend godliness as the
best mental discipline, better than
bellies lettres to purify the taste, bet
ter than mathematics TO harness the
mind TO all intricacy and elaboration,
better than logic to marshal the intel
lectual forces for onset and victory
II will go with Hugh Miller and show
him the footprints of the Creator in
the red sandstone. IT will go with the
botanist and show him celestial glories
encamped under the curtain of a water
lily. 1t will GO with the astronomer on
the great heights where God shepherds
the great flock of worlds that wander
on the hills OF Heaven answering His
voice as he calls them all by their
names.
Again | remark that godliness is
profitable for ones disposition Lord
Ashley. before he went into = great
battle. was heard TO offer this
prayer: 20 Lord. shall be very
busy to-day! If forget Thee. for
get me not" With such Christian
disposition as that man is indie.
pendent Of all circumstances. Our
plctY viii have tinge of our natural
temperament. If man he cross and
sour and fretful naturally. after he
becomes Christian he will ALWAYS
nave To be armed against the rebel
hon OF those evil inclinations. But
religion has tanned the widest ma
lures. 1T has turned fretrulness into
gratitude. dependency into good
cheer. and those who were hard and
ung"Nernable and uncompromising
have been made pliable and consilia-
tory. Good resolution. reformatorv
effort, will not effect the change. 1t
takes mightier arm and mightier
hand to bend evil habits than the
hand that bent the how of ULYSSES.
and IL takes stronger lasso than
ever held the buffalo on the prairie
"A man cannot go forth with any
human weapons and contend sue
ceSSfully against these Titans armed
with uPtorn mountains. But YOU
have known men into whose spirit
the influence of the Gospel of Christ
came until their disposition was en-
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