advance the welfare of men and the honour of your God. You will not consider it sufficient to attain gifis, however great and splendid, when you recollect how empty and worthless they are without charity. The Apostle says, " Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels, and have not charity, I am be- come as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knordedge (in which we may include all that is cultivated with so much assiduity and success in this learned university) ; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing^." After such declarations as these, so strong, so authoritative, so decisive, I may well be excused if I urge upon you a practical attention to them, and entreat you, whilst pursuing, as you ought to do, the best attainments in learning, not to be unmindful of that more excellent way; but to ** add to your knowledge godliness, and to godli- ness brotherly-kindness, and to brotherly-kindness
e 1 Cor. xiii. 1—3. '^ 2 Pet. i. 6, 7.
1 Cor. xiii. 1 — 3. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, a7id have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinklmg cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knoivledge ; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it projiteth me nothing.
IN the apostolic age, the Church enjoyed some advantages, to which we of this day are strangers. The vast variety of gifts which were vouchsafed to