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your fellow beings by the communication of your treasures whether 

 they be intellectual, moral or physical. ' 



To search for truth, to obtain it, to apply it, to diffuse it — these are 

 the great task imposed by a wise Creator on a richly endowed crea- 

 ture. This is our birth-right. Unworthy is he of the name man — un- 

 worthy the privileges of civilization and religion, whose heart does not 

 beat high in resolves to fulfill his elevated destiny and to achieve victo- 

 ries over ignorance, sensuality and sin. At the shrine then of truth should 

 we be assiduous worshippers, and for it should we search as for hid 

 treasures. We may think with the ancients that it is in the bottom of 

 a well, but if we appreciate properly its importance, we will be willing 

 to descend and to obtain it. 



I hold him to be a man and no other, however strong his preten- 

 sions from his corporeal organization, who carries with him a convic- 

 tion, that in the economy of life he is bound by every motive strong 

 and holy, to expend his energies, not in sensuality and excess, but in the 

 pursuit of truth. Wherever he can get it, he should go. He ought not 

 to think it too laborious to search for it in distant lands, if it cannot be 

 procured at home. It was not unusual in an earlier period of the world 

 for the friends of truth to go abroad into distant lauds in search of it, 

 to travel amongst the nations to learn their wisdom, and to devote years 



to labors of this kind. 



(To be continued.) 



PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE. NO. II. 



Having in a former number given some account of the 'origin and 

 progress of Pennijylvania College, we propose now to present its claims 

 to public favor, to examine its interior economy, to ascertain what are 

 the advantages it offers. It will then be in the power of the community 

 to determine whether it is deserving of patronage. It asks for support 

 on no other ground than real merit. The convenient edifice in which 

 the students are accommodated, the extensive course of study pursued, 

 the ample corps of instructors, lire respectable and increasing number of 

 students, may all in themselves fail to enlist confidence, or may, at least, 

 be regarded as of collateral importance ; there are other and higher in- 

 terests which, if not subserved, may leave it without suftlcient recom- 

 mendation to an enlightened and Christian public. 



The College is located in an extremely healthy region. The atmos- 

 phere is pure and salubrious. The climate operates favorably upon those 

 who come from sections of tire country less blessed with health. Weak- 

 ness of body has, bometimes, here given place to strength and vigor. For 



