Colleges and Free Institutions: A Discourse, Delivered at the Tenth Anniversary of the Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education at the West, in the Central Church, Worcester,

Excerpt from Colleges and Free Institutions: A Discourse, Delivered at the Tenth Anniversary of the Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education at the West, in the Central Church, Worcester, Mass., October 23d, 1853

The children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. - 2 Cor. Xii. 14.

The principle of the text is applied by the Apostle to the duty of spiritual fathers towards their spiri tual offspring. With equal propriety we may give it still greater latitude of interpretation, and extend it to the duty of every preceding age to the ages which are to follow. God has so ordained it, that the future is dependent on the past. This is espe cially true with respect to those who inherit' the soil and succeed to the institutions of their predecessors. How extensively are we of the present day indebted to our early forefathers? If the solitudes of this mighty continent have given place to the abodes of civilized life if the wildernesses are transformed into gardens of luxuriance and beauty, we owe it in part, and in no small part, to the hardy culture commenced by those brave pioneers of liberty who stepped from the deck of the Mayflower upon Ply mouth Rock.

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