The celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its founding as Queens College, 1766-1916 . rbitrary in these laws. They were as natural and neces-sary as they were absolute, as He illustrated: ^ ^ A goodtree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupttree bring forth good fruit. Written there in the veryheart of the tree is the law that determines inevitably itsfruit. He affirmed the same truth when He said: * Thatwhich is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is bornof the Spirit is Spirit. Here then is a Christian prin-ciple of tremendous educational importance.
The celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its founding as Queens College, 1766-1916 . rbitrary in these laws. They were as natural and neces-sary as they were absolute, as He illustrated: ^ ^ A goodtree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupttree bring forth good fruit. Written there in the veryheart of the tree is the law that determines inevitably itsfruit. He affirmed the same truth when He said: * Thatwhich is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is bornof the Spirit is Spirit. Here then is a Christian prin-ciple of tremendous educational importance. We cannotsay that Christians have always recognized it. Indeed,one of the most serious charges against the Church inthe past is the arbitrariness of many of its dogmas andrules, the absence of any just recognition of the operationof natural laws, laws that inhere in various forces, de-termining their action with infallible certainty. Whatso-ever the errors of the past, however, the world is nowawake to the truth, and that reverence for law taughtand emphasized by Christ in precept and parable has led. SUNDAY, OCTOBER FIFTEENTH 193 to the achievement of modern science and is today oneof the most potent influences in our institutions of learn-ing. It is a revolutionary force, destructive of much thatman has thought established forever. It is as certain towrite new textbooks in theology as it has written newtextbooks in physics and chemistry, and is destined tochange the thought of the world upon almost every sub-ject that touches the life of man, bringing about a clearerrecognition and a fuller understanding of the spiritualforces which Christ Himself incarnated, and the lawsof these forces which must be obeyed if men are to growunto His likeness. This, as nothing besides, marks thecoming of the Kingdom of Heaven upon earth. It isimpossible to estimate the gain to humanity of increasingreverence for law, carrying with it increasing freedomfrom the fear of arbitrary evil, increas
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