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educate the head and the heart at the same time. IN'ever 

 was there a greater mistake nor one more injm^ious to per- 

 sonal and relative interests, to social and puhlic weal than 

 to separate these and attempt to effect a divorce between the 

 intellectual and the moral in man. What sort of a creature 

 would a man be, if he had no heart ? 'No heart to feel for 

 another's woe ; nor to rejoice with them that rejoice ; and 

 never to weep with them that weep ; to have no word 'of 

 encouragement for the desponding ; no look of compassion 

 for the suffering; no hand to feed the hungry or clothe the 

 naked ; no promptings to go on errands of mercy to the 

 sick and dying ? Yet this is what the presuming wisdom 

 and arrogant spirit of this age has attempted in some of the 

 highest and, in point of mental furniture, some of the best 

 endowed institutions in our country. 



With such a system Professor Mitchell held no sympa- 

 thy. Defective as all institutions founded upon Legisla- 

 tive patronage unquestionably are, in necessary provision 

 for teaching Christianity as a system of divine revelation for 

 the salvation of men, and that, in consequence of the petty 

 rivalries and mean jealousies of sectaries, who seem unable 

 to comprehend and embrace the enlarged and catholic 

 spirit of the gospel, and who would see every institution of 

 learning in the land crumbled into ruins rather than not 

 have a direct share in its management and government, — • 

 this defect in moral training founded on the recognition of 

 the great facts and doctrines of Christianity, so justly com- 

 plained of by parents, and particularly by religious parents, 

 in the education of their sons. Professor Mitchell, I 

 know, endeavored to supply by infusing the religious ele- 

 ment, as much as possible, into his instructions in the 

 lecture room, and more especially in his conversation 

 with those who were so fortunate as to win his perso- 

 nal regard. More than forty years have now elapsed since 

 he first entered the walls of the North Carolina Universi- 



