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Show Educating Men Away From Ministry It must be confessed that the drift of college life Is noi ejne that encourages a young man to go forward with his plans for ministerial work even when., be has reached a b .sl-m I" f ntcrmg College The ayerage college life. Ilk- the average life of mod. rn llinc--. Is too dlff, tent to religion and to religious Influences. Even in colleges pronouncedly organized to train men for lh- ministry lli.- curriculum sludl-. sludl-. ously avoids those subjects which would I keep alive In tie- heart of a young man th.- lire that has already been kindled there, and substitute other subjects which Inevitably draw him In a different direction. direc-tion. Too frequently no effort is made t cultivate in him the desire which has al-ren.il al-ren.il had birth, and . very college profl -- sor knows that a majority of those who erit.r college with the ministry In mind leave college to take up law or medicine or to enter business. In former davs the-collegea the-collegea w.T'- mad,- up almost wholly of men who were preparing for the ministry, and the atmosphere . f the , ollege was one which strengthened with every year the desire already manifeiJvd. But in modern J days it is cpille the opposite, partly be- j cause the scientific spirit han come to pr- I vail, partly because there is as yet no ade-ajnate ade-ajnate presentation of the religious position posi-tion from a modern point of lew, partly because so larrio a proportion of th,.". who enter the ministry do so without a college' iralnmr. "i". in fact, no ndeitiale training for these and other reasons the college atmosphere Is In, some cases indifferent, indif-ferent, In others c-vn hostile to the development de-velopment of the ministerial Idea. President Presi-dent William R llariK-r. in Tho World 1 ...lav |