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Publishing Committee · Rochester, N. Y. · Mar 28, 1854

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 5, No. 10.

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UNSANCTIFIED LEARNING.

"I fear much," said Luther, "that the Universities will be found great gates leading down to hell, unless they take diligent care to explain the Holy Scriptures, and to engrave them in the hearts of our youth. I would not advise any one to place his child where the Holy Scriptures are not regarded as the rule of life. Every institution where God's word is not diligently studied, must become corrupt." That these fears of the great Reformer were not groundless, the subsequent history of the German Universities bear melancholy proof. In England the same tendency is felt and lamented by the pious servants of Christ, and in our own happy country we have seen enough to warn us of the danger of suffering the intellect to be cultivated whilethe heart is not impressed with the authority and divinity of the Holy Scriptures.—Selected.