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By education the majority still mean the culture of the mind , and a comprehensive and systematic course of intellectual discipline is the great , if not the sole process through which theological students are conducted . But is there not a higher education , and as higher , so move important , more important because involving the cultivation of those powers , which modify the direction of
intellectiial ^ stre ^ Why should the culture of the affections be forgotten ? Is it involved in the routine of a collegiate life ? The ordinary mode of a college-existence furnishes no scope for the play of the heart , is fitted to drain the sources of its feelings , and to make the man worse , almost as certainly as the scholar better . What if there be an entire want pf friendly society , except the little that student
may cultivate with student ; what if years are spent within dreary walls and drearier rooms , without scarcely ever , in the college life , feeling the warm pressure of a friend ' s hand , or beholding the human face divine irradiated with joy at ^ ur approach ; what if no blazing hearth and social circle await your corning at the close of the day ; what if , when you leave your narrow and joyless chamber , you feel yourself moving in a freezing atmosphere , amid stiffness , distance , and formality ; what if all the changes of the
year—spring with its new creation , summer with its radiant bounties , autumn with its majesty , and winter with its severe grandeur —• what if all this varying scene goes forward with an unbroken uniformity of human coldness , no mind to watch with you the passage of the seasons , no heart to exult with yours in the splendour of a summer ' s sun , or compensate by its warmth for the
chill of nature ' s frost and snow ; are such things good schoolmasters of the affections ? Must they not make the heart cold that is fraught with human emotions , and wither that which nature has left dry and phlegmatic ? Yet who needs to have a heart full of the milk of human kindness , if not the Christian minister ? Pride will not stand him in place of beneficence , nor stately distance serve instead of that warmth of Christian love which fuse 3
down all the arbitrary distinctions of life , and leaves man and virtue the only stamp on the image of God . Nor will a forced and unnatural heat of manner do the work of that earnest and tender concern for human salvation which springs out of a bosom that has imbibed the spirit of Christ by mental intercourse with him , and the spirit of humanity by mingling in the scenes of actual life . Jesus led not the life of a monk to fit him fordischaVg ;^ l
ing the duties of a man . The scene of his prepara tipri Wtis not the cloister nor the college , but , with the excerVti&n of forty days > a home . He lived among men , that he mignt'lkntiii ! th 6 ir characters , and feel as well as know their tyabtS , and \? ftien he 1 } ad $ send out heralds of his gospel , h& choserifctjrJriesfs but ni £ nytib t scholars but men ; he disre ^ artetl ¦ all ' ^ jpi ' ctitibiis ' di ^ tincti , 6 n ^ ' iri order to avail himself of tlife foWof gobdtiefes ^ KH ^ eiiVeir ^ a
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THE TRUTH TEIXER . . 167
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1833, page 167, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2615/page/7/
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