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anity are delivered by the President. The stvidy of the New Testament 

 in the original Greek forms a regular part of the course. It is an exe- 

 getical exercise, designed to promote an acquaintance not merely with 

 the peculiar diction of the New Testament, but likewise with the truths 

 contained in it; its influence cannot but be favorable to enlightened 

 views of Christianity and holy living. Prayers are attended in the Col- 

 leo-e Chapel every morning and evening, with the reading of the Scrip- 

 tures, one of the Faculty ofliciating. The students are all required to 

 attend worship on the Sabbath in the College Church, unless parents ex- 

 pressly desire that they should attend preaching with some other deno- 

 mination in the place. On the afternoon of the Lord's day, they also 

 attend a Biblical recitation in the College edifice, conducted by one of 

 the Professors. Voluntary meetings for prayer and praise are held du- 

 ring the week, which furnish an additional means for spiritual improve- 

 ment. Pennsylvania College may emphatically be called a Christian 

 Institution. A considerable number of the students are pious, and from 

 many of its apartments the voice of prayer ascends daily before the 

 mercy seat. Those, who enter its w<ills without a knowledge of God, 

 find themselves surrounded by disciples of Christ, who warn and in- 

 struct them, and sometimes not in vain. Some who have come to seek 

 knowledge, such as man needs in this life, have found the pearl of great 

 price, have returned to tell those interested in their welfare, that they 

 have found a hope of salvation through the mercy of the Saviour. It 

 is true, that in every College there are corrupt young rhen, but their 

 power must be gently checked, when there are so many and such coun- 

 ter influences constantly at work. If an individual of decidedly vicious 

 character is admitted into the institution, he may, without much diffi- 

 culty, discover means of indulging his inclination, and may find in se- 

 cret a companion or two of kindred spirit. But if a young man fre- 

 quent this seat of learning for the purpose of improving in knowledge 

 and piety, there need be no apprehension entertained that he will be 

 drawn from the path of rectitude and virtue. If there is one object 

 nearer the hearts of those, who preside over its interests than another, it 

 is that the mind here educated may be sanctified ; that it may catch its 

 inspirations from the word of God and be guided by its life-giving pre- 

 cepts, if there is one petition presented at the throne of Grace with 

 greater fervor than another, it is that the youth here gathered may be 

 made savingly acquainted with the Redeemer, that in the morning of 

 life, they may gird on the whole armor of God, and consecrate their 

 powers, their faculties, their energies, their youthful hearts, to the service 

 of their Maker. 



