st, remain as the rock on which the snow rests, and which remains
uninjured by the heat, unmoved by the passing storm. May it endure
and strengthen as it passes from the first feeble beginnings of this
its infancy to a vigorous youth and maturity. You will sometimes in
days to come recall the inauguration of your College, and perhaps
not forget that its founder prayed you to bear in mind the truth
that you will find, even now, the truest satisfaction in the strict
discharge of duty; that he urged you to form high and unselfish
aims--to seek noble and worthy objects; and as you enter on the
world and all its tossing sea of jealousies, strife, division and
distrust, to heed the lesson which an Apostle, whose words we all
alike revere, has taught us, "If ye bite and devour one another,
take ye heed that ye be not consumed one of another."

'Here, we hope, a point of union has been found which may last
through life, and that whilst every man cherishes a love for his own
peculiar School, all alike will have an interest in their common
College, all alike be proud of a national institution, jealous of
its honour, and eager to advance its welfare.

'It is a common thing to hear the bitterness of religious discord
here deplored. I for one, looking back on the history of past
years, cannot think, as some seem to do, that it has increased. On
the contrary, it seems to me that it has greatly diminished in
violence when displayed, and that its displays are far less
frequent. Such, I believe, will be more and more the case; and that
whilst religious distinctions will remain the same, and
conscientious convictions unaltered, social and party differences
consequent on those distinctions and convictions will daily
diminish; that all alike will more and more feel in how many things
they can think and act together for the benefit of their common
country, and of the community of which they all are members; how
they can be glad together in her prosperity, and be sad together in
the day of her distress; and work together at all times to promote
her good. That this College is calculated to aid in a great degree
in effecting this happy result, I for one cannot entertain the
shadow of a doubt. "Esto perpetua!"'

'Esto perpetua.' But there remains, I believe, more yet to be done
for education in the West Indies; and that is to carry out Mr.
Keenan's scheme for a Central University for the whole of the