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8 o THE HOBART HERALD. auspices of its ecclesiastical authorities, or, at least, officially allied to its specific worship and doctrine. Steps looking- to a like purpose have already- been taken by several other religious bodies in the land. If the Board of Regents has not deemed it wise to bend its energies in this direction, it is not because it does not clearly recognize the full value of such a proposal both to the whole country and to the Church itself. No graver economic problem presents itself to our country than that which is concerned with the development of its intelligence and with the character o f its educational equipment. The ideal solution o f this problem certainly does not and cannot be along the lines of a system of teaching which has become secularized and divorced from the moulding influences o f the Christian religion. However wide or free or accurate may be the training that results from an unfettered pursuit of the arts and sciences, it cannot be ideally so until it makes an equally noble and dignified place for educational forces that emanate from positive religion. It is one thing to say that the educa tional system of the land should make room for the pursuit o f learning freed from dominant control of purely ecclesiastical and theological considerations. It is quite another thing to say that such considerations shall have no share whatever, or, if any, a very subordinate one, in the system of education which is to give to our country its future leaders in all departments of life. A truly statesmanlike conception of all that education really involves will, of course, insist upon the freest play of search after all tru t h ; but none the less w ill it also insist that the noble, the inspiring and the guiding truths of the one great religion of the world shall not be relegated to a con temptible obscurity or endured as a practical necessity. Just in proportion as splendid equipments are devised for the most expert teaching of things temporal, so should splendid provisions be made for things spiritual. If, then, many Churchmen look forward to the day when her choicest youth may be taught all that is best in the arts and sciences in some great Church University, it is not because they propose to fetter the spirit of investigation, which is necessary to intellectual progress, but because they long to be able to send their sons into an atmosphere of ripest learning redolent also with the beauty of holiness, and in which the Divine voice of the Church of Christ finds at least equal welcome with that of the great teachers of the day. Nor need we make the least apology for venturing to assert that such a University would be of even greater service to the National life than to the
