First came the shepherds, or
working class; second, the wise men, or student class; and third,
the two old people in the temple, Simeon and Anna; that is to say,
Christ is revealed to men at their work, He is revealed to men at
their books, and He is revealed to men at their worship. It was
the old people who found Christ at their worship, and as we grow
older we will spend more time exclusively in worship than we are
able to do now. In the mean time we must combine our worship with
our work, and we may expect to find Christ at our books and in our
common task.
Why should God have provided that so many hours of every day should
be occupied with work? It is because
Work makes men.
A university is not merely a place for making scholars, it is
a place for making Christians. A farm is not a place for growing
corn, it is a place for growing character, and a man has no
character except that which is developed by his life and thought.
God's Spirit does the building through the acts which a man performs
from day to day. A student who cons out every word in his Latin
and Greek instead of consulting a translation finds that honesty
is translated into his character. If he works out his mathematical
problems thoroughly, he not only becomes a mathematician, but becomes
a thorough man.
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