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Excerpt from The Yale Literary Magazine, Vol. 54: February, 1889
Retain then, let me repeat, whatever is of real worth in the system as it stands, but give us something more. It is true that a man's religion must find its own expression or be dead, and that students can often best help each other in these matters. But to rest satisfied for the supply of our religious needs with the various student agencies for religious work is no more reasonable than the action of a Church that would close its doors on the Sabbath to find in its mid-week prayer meetings both the source and expression of its religious life.
Our present condition is a serious matter for those who come here fresh from active connection with other Churches. Their religious experience suffers a break in the continuity of its growth. Cut loose as in a sense their thought islfrom its constant hold on great themes to which it has hitherto so firmly attached itself, a kind of spiritual mind-wandering results that often ends in much more than a season of comparatively harmless indifference. I am far from attributing those periods of unsettlement of opinions, of both negative doubt and positive rejection of old beliefs, that so frequently attack the students, solely to the weak ness of Church organization. But the very fact that these experiences, with all the tremendously important interest which they possess, are proverbially characteristic of a college course, is in itself the most powerful plea for the best equipped and most deeply spiritual Church body in our. Midst, to which end no one element seems more necessary than a permanent pastor, who knows, and who can fully sympathize with college men.
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