a new year of college life, his first thought is of what it can
do for him. He has studied the college programme, asking himself:
"What can I get out of this?" and now he looks into the year, with all
its unknown chances, and asks of it: "O unknown year, what happiness
and friendship and instruction may I get from you? Will you not bring
to {5} pass what I desire? I would that thou shouldest do for me
whatever I ask." Then the spirit of Jesus Christ meets him here and
turns his question round: "What are you going to do for the college
during this coming year? Are you going to help us in our morals, in
our intellectual life, in our religion? Are you going to contribute to
the higher life of the university? For what do you come here,--to be
ministered unto, or to minister?"

Of course a man may answer that this is an impossible test; that there
is nothing that he can give to a great place like this, and everything
he can receive. But he little knows how the college from year to year
gets marked for good or evil by a class, or a group within a class, or
sometimes a few persons, as they pass in and out of our gates.
Sometimes a group of young men live for a few years among us and leave
behind them a positively malarial influence; and some times a few quiet
lives, simply and modestly lived among us, actually sweeten and purify
our climate for years together. And so in the quiet of our prayers we
give ourselves, not to be ministered unto, but to minister. {6}
Nowhere in the world is it more true that we are members one of
another, and that the whole vast institutional life is affected by each
slightest individual. Nowhere in this world is there a better chance
to purify the spirit and tone, either of work or of sport, and nowhere
can a man discover more immediately the happiness of being of use. The
recreation and the religion, the study and the play, of our associated
life, are waiting for the dedication of unassuming Christian men to a
life which offers itself, not to be ministered unto, but to minister.

{7}

III

THE TRANSMISSION OF POWER

_John_ xvii. 22.

This was the glory which Jesus Christ claimed for himself--to take the
glory of God and glorify with it the life of man. "The glory that thou
hast given me I have given them." It was not a glory of possession,
but a glory of transmission. It was not his capacity to receive which
glorified him, it was his capacity to give. In most of the gr