Our College Times . ds thoughts after Him instead ofthinking what men please to speculateabout. Religion and superstition, whichhave been influencing each other fromthe beginning of Christianity, havebeen two of the most powerful forceswhich needed to be separated. Andnow the least that can be said on theseforces is that nothing has done somuch for religion in dispelling super-stition as science and scientific knowl-edge. Our greatest literary men,Shakespeare, Milton, etc., lived andwrote when this arch-enemy of pro-gress held almost complete yet it was not their song nor theinfluence
Our College Times . ds thoughts after Him instead ofthinking what men please to speculateabout. Religion and superstition, whichhave been influencing each other fromthe beginning of Christianity, havebeen two of the most powerful forceswhich needed to be separated. Andnow the least that can be said on theseforces is that nothing has done somuch for religion in dispelling super-stition as science and scientific knowl-edge. Our greatest literary men,Shakespeare, Milton, etc., lived andwrote when this arch-enemy of pro-gress held almost complete yet it was not their song nor theinfluence of their masterpieces thatgave religion 3* freedom and its dy-namic. But scitnce was almost the ex-clusive agent to knock the props fromunder superstitious ideas, and was the influence of scientific know-ledge that overthrew this gigantictyrant. As a result religion is in theprogress of adjusting itself, and itsinfluences for good are beginning the remotest and darkestspot on earth. — s ^o N o 0 t Is To live content with small means;to seek elegance rather than luxury;and refinement rather than fashion, tobe worthy, not respectable; andwealthy, not rich; to study hard, thinkquietly, talk gently, act frankly; tolisten to stars and birds, to babes andsages, with open heart; to bear allcheerfully, to do all bravely, await oc-casion, hurry never; in a word, to letthe spiritual, unbidden and uncon-scious grow up through the is to be my symphony. —William Henry Channing. Several of our young students at-tended a lecture delivered by BookerT. Washington last week at Harris-burg. Miss Edna Hoffer of Palmyra andMiss Edith Shank and Messrs. IraShank and J. G. Hershey of Hershey,visited Miss Mary Bowman at theCollege on Sunday. Mr. C. M.: After returning fromchurch. Did you see that man inchurch? Mr. E. H.: Which man. Mr. C. M.: That man that sangalto like a lady with a white mus-tache. Miss M. E. Miller is anticipatingwith great pleasure a w
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