Gregg has returned to college, and has entered '76. the beginning of the Sophomore year.

He left '74 at

Heller has so far recovered from the injuries received last term as to be able again to pursue his studies with his class.

George Reynolds is on an engineer corps in the Wyoming Valley. Herron is at Princeton Theological Seminary. After leaving Lafayette he entered Washington and Jefferson College, where he gradu ated this summer.

Wm. J. Stewart, Jr., formerly of '73, has returned and entered '74. Sutton, J. W., is in business at his home.

Wm. H. Wigton graduated at the Military Institute at Chester, Pa., in June last.

Bainbridge has left college.

'75

Milligan has left college, and is now in the South.

Otto is doing well in Wilmington, Delaware.

Ross has left, and is going to study law in Reading.

'76.

Armijo has left college. He expects to remain in Philadelphia a few months, after which he will return to his home in Mexico.

Bachman is clerk in Riegle's book store.

Corbin has returned and entered '77.

Caldwell is at home.

Creveling has left, and is in New York.

Owing to sickness, Guiley has been obliged to quit his studies for a while.

Mifflin is going to study law in Wilmington, Del.

George E. Scott is in a bank at home.

White and Wright have left college.

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VOL. IV.

OCTOBER, 1873.

NUMBER 2.

CHRISTIANITY AND MODERN CIVILIZATION.

BY KAPPA.

There was a fearful mortality among the Anti-Christian civilizations. No matter how high in the scale civilization raised men, no matter how much experience she taught them from the decline of civilizations before their own; as the men died their civilization seemed to die after them. In every nation civilization took all the advantages and elevating influences of past generations, and bringing them to every man laid them out before him and offered him his choice. And having thus offered to him the wisdom of past generations, she bade each man profit by the experience of his ancestors and become wiser than his fathers. And yet, notwithstanding all that civilization did for men, she could not keep them up in that higher plane to which she had raised them, and she saw even her finest, noblest efforts, as in Greece and Rome, decline and die. Evidently some principles were still lacking to civilization which were essential to her permanence. But when civilization has thus proved her inability to make and keep mankind civilized, there came another power, heaven-born, to teach her the principles she yet lacked, and along with her set forth to make and keep mankind exalted and happy. What was this revelation—

the discovery of new truths and ideas that Christianity made to civilization ?

Christianity taught her first, than civilization had yet known. the ancient civilizations. Men thought their conquered captives fit only for slaves. But these slaves always weakened the nations, making their men inert and effeminate. Thus the nation fell and its civilization fell with it. But when Christianity came she taught that every man had a soul. She taught further that on that soul eternal destinies hung. She thus set a priceless value on the soul and its owner. When she had taught this to civilization slavery waned. Emancipation of slaves began at first on a small scale. But civilization continued to teach liberty more and more to men, until in this 19th century we have witnessed the liberation of whole nations of slaves in England, Russia and the United States. But Christianity taught that not only the bodies, but also the minds of men must be free. And civilization has at last learned from her freedom of thought, of opinion, of speech, everywhere and on every topic. And having once learned the joys of liberty, civilization is carrying it to the uncivilized, breaking down their ideas of caste and their slave-customs, and gradually liberating the slaves of these countries with which she has come in contact. Thus, through Christianity, civilization has become strong enough not only to sustain herself but to be able to spread her power abroad.

Liberty-a greater, broader liberty
Slavery was one of the curses of

But this wide freedom, making men regardless of each other's interests, would have made the efforts of civilization suicidal; so Christianity emphasized another principle of ancient civilization-utility.

Civilization at first taught men to be useful only in a certain direction. In the Eastern nations she taught them to be useful to the despot on the throne. In Greece she taught men to do what would be profitable for science and art. In Rome she taught the people to do what would be useful for the maintenance and spread of the Empire. But Christianity came and taught civilization that utility in of any one these directions was not enough, that the only true utility was that which aimed at the good of mankind as a race. As soon as civilization grasped this principle and taught it, man's happiness increased. Slowly discoveries for the good of man multiplied, inventions for his benefit increased in number, until in this 19th century discoveries and inventions are made every day. Man's hard toil by hand has given way to the easier work by steam. His wealth has increased, his.