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V THE CHURCH UNIVERSITX BOARD OP REGENTS. 81 Church itself. The part which Oxford and Cambridge play in parliament, on the exchange, in social life and in the press, seems as great, and some claim that now it is even greater than that which they perform in the Church. Oxford and Cambridge would not be themselves if their libraries, colleges, laboratories aud museums were enriched ten-fold, had they not their chapels, churches, potent pulpits and attractive services. There is a breadth and depth of culture, which can come to any national life only when its great Universities are pervaded with the spirit of religion and faith, as -well as with that of research. Already this fact is coming to be recognized. Our oldest and noblest foundations are making greater preparations than ever for an effective presentation of a postively religious culture. There is yet room for a great Central Church University such as has been urged upon the attention of the Board. It might be worth the while of those who are seeking to secure the highest possible type of the Ameri can University of the future, to urge the experiment of a great localized Church University which, in separate colleges under independent methods o f administration, might at the same time refledt the intensive life that comes from different schools of thought, and different types of worship in the Church, and yet which by reason of the deeper and wider spirit resulting from great University institutions, might be rescued from imperfections sometimes attendant upon the restrictions of limited surroundings. Oxford exercises an influence as a whole. But none the less the tone of the whole is a combination of separate and differing colleges. It is difficult to say which is the more powerful. T h e results are manifest in perhaps the noblest types of culture to be found in history. The very friCtiou that arises from the contaCt of antagonistic schools or parties, seems a necessary element in that culture. The breadth that we Americans desire in our highest institu tions of learning is not the breadth that comes from a neglect of all positive religion and such consequent toleration as springs from an indifference bora of ignorance. The breadth that comes from the sum total of the various positive schools of thought, acting however, under a common organization, and more in sympathy with each other is the breadth we desire, and is to be secured only in a great university linked to a positive religion and yet not chained to schools or parties. It is scarcely too much to say that if America is to be aided by such a University, it will find no better type of religion o f this Church; a religion positive but tolerant, intensive yet broad, with
