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science told him had been an ill-spent life. ' Oh I ' he ex- 

 claimed, ' if I could only live my years over again ! Oh ! 

 if I could only be spared for a few years, I would give all 

 the wealth I have amassed in a life-time. It is a life 

 devoted to money-getting that I regret. It is this which 

 weighs me down, and makes me despair of the life here- 

 after.'" Suppose so unfaithful a steward is permitted to 

 enter the ' ' many mansions. " When, with clarified spirit- 

 ual vision, he perceives the true meaning of life, and 

 sees that he has lost the one opportunity of an endless 

 existence to set in motion influences, which, by leading 

 sinners to repentance, would cause heaven to thrill with 

 a new joy, it seems to me he would gladly give a hun- 

 dred years of Paradise for a single day on earth in posses- 

 sion of the money once entrusted to him — time enough to 

 turn that power into the channels of Christian work. 

 The emergency created by the settlement of the states 

 and territories of the West— a grand constellation of 

 empires — is to be met by placing in the hand of every 

 Christian agency there at work all the power that money 

 can wield. There is scarcely a church, or society, or 

 institution of any kind doing God service there whifch is 

 not embarassed, or sadly crippled for lack of funds. Mis- 

 sionaries should be multiplied, parsonages and churches 

 built, and colleges generously endowed. The nation's 

 salt, with which the whole land and pre-eminently the 

 tainted civilization of the frontier, must be sweetened, is 

 Christian education. The tendency, which is so marked 

 in many of our older and larger colleges, to develop 

 and furnish simply the intellect, is full of peril. Divorce 

 religion and education, and we shall fall a prey either 

 to blundering goodness or well-schooled villainy. The 

 young colleges of the West, like Di-ury, Doane, Carleton, 

 Colorado, Yankton, Fargo, and others, founded bj^ broad- 

 minded and far-seeing men are characterized by a strong 

 religious influence, and send a surprising proportion of 

 their graduates into the ministry. In view of their 

 almost boundless possibilities for usefulness in their 

 relations to the future of the West and of the nation, 



