h are the two fundamental principles of the school system, on which I
have more than once dwelt at large in official reports.

Now apply these principles to the collegiate system of the country.
First, the united right and duty of the parent and pastor. Should that
be suspended when the son is away from home, or should it be provided
for? Let parental affection and conscience, and not blind or heartless
partisanship, reply. If, then, the combined care and duty of the parent
and pastor are to be provided for as far as possible when the son is
pursuing the higher part of his education, for which he must leave home,
can that be done best in a denominational or non-denominational College?
But one answer can be given to this question. The religious and moral
principles, feelings, and habits of youth are paramount. Scepticism and
partisanship may sneer at them as "sectarian," but religion and
conscience will hold them as supreme. If the parent has the right to
secure the religious instruction and oversight of his son at home, in
connection with his school education, has he not a right to do so when
his son is abroad? and is not the State in duty bound to afford him the
best facilities for that purpose? And how can that be done so
effectually--nay, how can it be effectually done at all--except in a
college which, while it gives the secular education required by the
State, responds to the parent's heart and faith to secure the higher
interests which are beyond all human computation, and without the
cultivation of which society itself cannot exist? It is a mystery of
mysteries, that men of conscience, men of religious principle and
feeling, can be so far blinded by sectarian jealousy and partizanship,
as to desire for one moment to withhold from youth at the most feeble,
most tempted, most eventful period of their educational training, the
most potent guards, helps, and influences to resist and escape the
snares and seductions of vice, and to acquire and become established in
those principles, feelings, and habits which will make them true
Christians, at the same time that they are educated men. Even in the
interests of civilization itself, what is religious and moral stands far
before what is merely scholastic and refined. The Hon. Edward Everett
has truly said in a late address, "It is not political nor military
power, but moral sentiments, principally under the guidance and
influence of religious zeal, that has in all ages civ