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In return, Christianity can do more for students than they themselves are
likely to realize in youth. Men grow tired. Their moral enthusiasm flags.
Scientific sociology may remain academic, cold, and ineffective. We need
inspiration, impulse, will power, and nothing can furnish such steady
accessions of moral energy as living religion. Science and the Christian
faith combined are strong. Those who succeed in effecting a combination of
these two without insincerity or cowardice are the coming leaders.

If a student's mind has given inward consent to the teachings of Jesus in
this course of study, that constitutes an appeal for personal
discipleship. Can we go with Christ in living out these principles, and
meanwhile draw on his spiritual wealth to build up our growing life? If
there is a student who can not at present affirm all that the Christian
Church holds concerning the nature of Christ, why should he not approach
him as the earliest disciples did, by personal love and obedience,
following him and cooperating with him in the business of the Kingdom of
God, and arriving in time at full faith in his Messiahship? A great and
firm faith is the product and prize of a lifetime of prayer and loving
action. "Light is sown to the righteous." As we gather the wisdom of life,
and find that while we move from knowledge to knowledge, we are also
advancing from mystery to mystery, many of us will be ready and glad to
join in the highest affirmation of faith about Jesus Christ, in whom we
have learned to see God.

"If Jesus Christ is a man,
And only a man, I say
That of all mankind I cleave to him,
And to him I cleave alway.

"If Jesus Christ is a God,
And the only God, I swear
I will follow him through heaven and hell,
The earth, the sea, and the air."

--RICHARD WATSON GILDER.

If Christianity henceforth is to discharge its full energy in the
regeneration of social life, it especially needs the allegiance of college
men and women who have learned to understand to some degree the facts and
laws of human society. The development of what is called "Social
Christianity" or "the social gospel," is a fusion between the new
understanding created by the social sciences, and the teachings and moral
ideals of Christianity. This combination was inevitable; it has already
registered social effects of the highest importance; if it can win the
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