1897] lifetime and death of nations, man has toiled on continuously in his arduous task of unsealing, reading, translating and interpret ing this great book. Progress was slow. Sometimes whole cen turies were required to read a word, a line, a sentence. Often times errors were made which required years of toil and labor to discover and correct. But progress was made, and to-day if that John of Revelation were to stand upon this earth would he need to bow his head in shame because no man could be found able to open the book ? Would that John need to weep because no man could be found able to read therefrom ? Would the strong angel call with a loud voice for someone able and worthy to open the book and receive no response? We think not! We trust not! Where is Newton with his laws of motion; with his laws of gravitation; with his doctrine of infinitesimals ? Did he not break a seal ? Did he not read a line, yea a page ? Where is Watt with his harness for steam ? Did he not break a seal ? Who will dare evaluate, with the best aid of the whole realm of mathematics, what is being continually read from the page unsealed by him. Where are Benjamin Franklin and Joseph Henry, who, with their splendid intellects, could draw the lightening from the heavens and chain it to be the slave of man? Where are Lavoisier, Leibnitz, Descarte, Tesla, Edison, Roentgen—yea, a host of others, with their splendid, with their invaluable achievements along the lines of independent investigation and discovery ? Yea, John, lift up your head. Weep no more for shame. Men have been found and are continually increasing in numbers who are able and worthy to open the book and to unloose the seals thereof. Now strong angel, guardian angel of mankind, call for men able and worthy to open the book and to unloose the seals thereof. A thousand, yea, a thousand times a thousand responses will come from all over the world. But why is this change ? How did Christianity cause such a marvelous transformation ? How did Christianity make the once unintelligible now perfectly intelligible ? The one answer is the college. Christianity is the agent acting to do the work, the col lege (and by college I mean all institutions of higher learning) is the means used to do the work. As the invigorating rays and refreshing light of that beautiful June sunshine causes the tiny bud to burst into the full-blown rose, which lends its delicious fragrance to all else about it, so do the gentle rays and purest Unseal The Book.
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