тни смисtтта званма sсноo, o (t ) being inimidal to, is the seandation of religion n thهيم the advancement of our nation-I graduates of our University—go forth into world with academic honors in the hand and scepticism in amother ; when education, instead of being a safeguard against angodiness, di: rectly encourages and promotes it ;--we feel that our country's best interests and prospects are in jeopardy. take an interest in the welfare of the country have viewed with alarm the progress 6f materi Tience is it that those who o, the and morality. It will also, we hope, be of * viea to •ar young mea in leadiag £hem practically to that higher life to which they are destined, by giving them a true ideal of manho0d land adequate motives for realizing it. Here? Gಿ minds, hearts and souls will be carried through such systematic exercise and training as may bring about the proper development of your whole spiritual nature. Here the alism and scepticism amongst tlie graduates of struggles between reason and faith will be ad. our University. And certainly they have a l right to demand a higher order of intelligence” and character from men blessed with liberal education. They have a right to demand that edu cated natives should not glory in denying the character, 魯 瞬 f means of laying the foundation of spiritual ads spirituality, immortality and accountability o the human soul, and in professing and practising that philosophy which dooms man to the - denies him low indulgences of sensual life and justed and the two harmoniously engaged in service of God. Your secular enlightenment will be rendered conducible to the purifieation of your heart and the elevation of your Here in short you will have the vancement on the firm basis of true philosophy. Let me now proceed to give a sketch of the plan of instruction which we shall follow in the the prerogativea and happiness of the moral School. We propose to explain in a popular nature; but that on the contrary they should style the Theology and Ethics of Brahma Dharendeavour to prove themselves in every respect ೩. These subjects will be taken up on alternate worthy of the honor which the State has con-Sundays as so to foim two parallel series of ferred on them, and of the confidence and res. Lectures. It is necessary in my opinion to keep pect of their own countrymen by exhibiting un- these two subjects always connected with eachbleinished character, frevant piety, and humble other, otherwise we may bring about all the reliance upon God side by side with their intel-levils and dangers of partial and one sided training. lectual accomplishments. The inculcation of morality without theology is But how is the needful reform to be brought likely to produce a habit of worldly virtues anol about? What is to be done to prevent scores of our outward honesty una companied by a due concepeducated brothers from falling every year into tion of God’s attributes, prayerful reliance upon the vortex of scepticism and materialism and to His Providonce and a salemn sense of responlead them to truth, righteousness and God? Insibility under His eternal moral government. such circumstances the revival of the Brahma We do not want that godless morality which is School is evidently indispensable. I do not^^ much esteemed in the world, and . mean to say that it will be able wholly to which consists only in the fulfilment of a overcome the gigantic evil refered to. But I few social and domestic duties; we want hope and trust that in the hands of Providence that wholesome genuine morality which is it may become an humble instrument to suppress grounded in faith, whose standard is the divine it in some measure—to offer some resistance to will and whose strenghis divine help. In order to the encroachments of matetalistic philosophy. comprehend and attain this preliminary theologi In a case of overwhelming difficulties and importance like this we cannot place any confidence in our own limited capacities or any purely hu. | man agency. God is out only hops, and we trust He vil do what is best for sur country in this consign wholly to his keeping, Under his holy gadiance it will teach the subtime doctrifies of true faith and to immutable pisciples of moral. in, and will pion dat tranthilosophy, a from cal training is indispensable, which will give the mind proper notions of God and our relations to Him. Nor is theology without morality less |mischievous. It makes man rest satisfied with the abstract knowledge of God, or seek pleasure in the mere contemplation of his nature and works. it begets conceited rationalism and exerts no influence on the emotion or the will. It attaches little importance to the fulfilment of duty, and * makes religion consist in knowing God, not in
