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. HESPERIAN STUDENT. EDITORS. EmTOIMN-CIUKK, E. P IIOI.MKS. Associate Editok, J. 0. Stuhdkvant. Looai. Editou and Husinmcss Maxaokii, - Ai.iikut Juyck. ti:ums KOlt SUIISCItll'irON. 1 copy per college year - - $1.00. 1 " six months .... 0.50. Single copy 0.10. H.VTKS OF AOVKUTISIXO. 1 column one insertion - - 2.r0, y squares " " 1.00, "1 " " " .y.r)( Alliutlcli'H for publication Miotiltl be nddroHHed Editor IIkxikuian Stuhknt, Statu University, Lincoln. NobrunlCii. All Hii1icilitloiiH, mid busliiCF communications with tbu iiddruHM nhould bit Hunt to Amikut Joyuk. subecilptioiin collected liiviuitibly lu ndviiuco. AdvcitlricmuniH collected monthly. SKEPTICISM. Among the young yes, I lie old, as well it is becoming popular to denounce the principles of Chi istiunily. Not that in fidelity and indill'ercntism is on the in cioiise, but that moral ily is on I lie do crease, do we venture a few words, at the expense, perhaps of some one's good na ture. A sad en or is made by the young . man who, for (lie sake of being peculiar and contrary, arrays himself as an aiitag. pnist against a question, delicate anil dun gcrous as it is ttiikunu u. Not but thai we like fico and independent thouglit and speech, but that we detest a manufactured dogma at the expuusu of molality and justice. The manufacturing of a belief cnricspondlng willi (he life one leads is a common occurrence, one resorted to by many, one at (heir expense. The demand of our country at pies'iit is for leaders For men who have not developed Iheir intellectual, al the expense of their tplilt ual faculties, but men in whom both have been developed in perfect haimony. Not for men who w ill Ignoto and deny the ex istence of God. Not for those who de clare themselves independent, fioe, and sepaiate from the existence of virtue and molality. Too mail) such men have al ready served as leaders, in managing the a Hairs of our country, to sanction a further continuance. Yet, 1111111)' arc the ones who, at the ex pense of their own individual success and welfare, are nouiishing and cherishing that which serves as the agent to heap up on them the curse of their fellow crea tines. To the higher educational institu tions, our country looks for help there rests its future hope and among them morality and virtue aie on the decline. Gradually, slowly, but study, is higher education being divorced from those prin ciples upon which the morality of man kind tests. The educational institutions of a country mould and direct the popu lar mind. As the pievailiug spirit of these institutions, so (lie dominant spirit of the nation, from our colleges to the pulpit and the rostrum, from rosiruiu and pulpit to the people. Destroy Unit which breeds morality and virtue, .ho peopl.) will ie Meet Ihe principles which will servo as their destroyer. We find in Germany and Scotland, when orthodoxy and ploly were in ascendency, likewise was the voice and sentiment of Ihe people, And particular, ly is this true at h.imc. As orthodoxy IIiiiU Its assailants, as piety is on the de dine, likewise are the people Nothing VS. II 'Bl
