And  how  does  the  young  man,  touched  with  the  modern
spirit,  come  to  regard  the  faith  which  he  is  thus  forced  to
reject?  Sometimes  he  regards  it  with  a  sense  of  pathos,
as  an  early  love  soon  lost;  sometimes  with  a  deep  indigna-
tion, as  the  source  of  scepticism  and  denial.  For  one
educated  youth  who  is  aHenated  from  religion  by  the  per-
suasions of  science,  philosophy,  or  art,  ten,  we  may  be  sure,


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are  thus  affected  by  the  irrational  or  impracticable  teach-
ing of  religion.  It  is  not  an  inherent  issue  between  learn-
ing and  faith  which  forces  them  out  of  the  church  in  which
they  were  bom;  it  is  an  unscientific  and  reactionary  theory
of  faith.  It  is  not  the  college  which  must  renew  its  con-
formity to  the  church;  it  is  the  church  which  must  open
its  eyes  to  the  marvellous  expansion  of  intellectual  horizon
which  lies  before  the  mind  of  every  college  student  to-day.
