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but he would venture to ask the Lecturer whether the good old days 

 of birchings, canings, sixth form lickings were entirely past, or 

 whether an important sign of the vocation of the teacher was not 

 still found in an ability to enforce discipline, as this was a point 

 which did not seem to be dealt with directly in the lecture. 



Mr. Sidney Collett said : I hesitate to make any comments on 

 so learned a paper. Yet there are one or two points on which I 

 venture humbly to oSer a few remarks. 



In the first place, the question of " vocation," of which the 

 Lecturer speaks with much force and wisdom, is one of the most 

 vital importance. For " there are, undoubtedly, diversities of 

 gifts " — not only in the Christian, but in every human being. And 

 many a life has been sadly wasted because the parents had not 

 studied, with sufficient care, the special qualifications which God 

 had bestowed upon their child. 



We also know — and our empty churches witness to the fact — 

 that there are men in our pulpits to-day who were never really 

 intended for the Ministry. But they are there from the same lack 

 of discernment. That is, their true vocation has been ignored. 



Then, there is one point on which I wish the Lecturer had laid 

 even greater stress, and that is the regular and reverent teaching of 

 Holy Scripture in our schools and colleges. 



One of the saddest things in the education of to-day is the irreverent 

 manner in which the Bible is treated in our universities, colleges and 

 public schools. Many of our professors have been so much influenced 

 by German higher criticism, that large numbers of our young men, 

 when their so-called education is finished, come out of the ordeal 

 with but little faith left in the inspiration of the Word of God. 

 And hence the materialism which is spreading throughout the land 

 with such deadly effect. 



It is, however, with a sense of great relief that one gathers that 

 this is not so at Winchester College. And, if the Lecturer could 

 raise his voice in protest against this growing evil, and use his great 

 influence towards giving the Bible its rightful place in our educational 

 establishments, he would be conferring an inestimable benefit, not 

 only upon those young people who are primarily concerned, but 

 also upon the nation at large. 



