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personal farewell of so many of those who will in the next 

 generation be the planters, the merchants, the official and 

 professional men of Trinidad. By the time that you are 

 men all the petty jealousies, all the mean resentments of 

 this our day, will have faded into the oblivion which is their 

 proper bourn. But the work now accomplished will not, T 

 trust, so fade. They will melt and perish as the snow of the 

 north would before our tropical sun : but the College will, 

 I trust, remain as the rock on which the snow rests, and 

 which remains uninjured by the heat, unmoved by the 

 passing storm. May it endure and strengthen as it passes 

 from the first feeble beginnings of this its infancy to a 

 vigorous youth and maturity. You will sometimes in days 

 to come recall the inauguration of your College, and perhaps 

 not forget that its founder prayed you to bear in mind the 

 truth that you will find, even now, the truest satisfaction in 

 the strict discharge of duty ; that he urged you to form higli 

 and unselfish aims to seek noble and worthy objects ; and 

 as you enter on the world and all its tossing sea of jealousies, 

 strife, division and distrust, to heed the lesson which an 

 Apostle, whose words we all alike revere, has taught us, 

 ' If ye bite and devour one another, take ye heed that ye 

 be not consumed one of another.' 



" Here, we hope, a point of union has been found which 

 may last through life, and that whilst every man cherishes a 



