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Excerpt from Primitive and Catholic Christianity: An Address Delivered Upon the Occasion of His Induction Into the Washburn Professorship of Church History in the Union Theological Seminary, New York
I can imagine that such a position as you will occupy here might suggest ambition to make for yourself a great repute for historical scholarship. Lay aside all anxiety about that. Your acquirements already, your ability, your habit Of looking far beneath the surface of ordinary historical reading, will keep your light from under the bushel.
I imagine also that with your scholarly disposition you might be tempted to dive where your classes, who are only learning to swim, may be unable to follow. If so, please reserve your deep sea soundings for report in published volumes, and the archives Of the learned societies, unless you can have a select class of those whom you are to make future professors. The ordinary student is not qualified for heavy research but he is prepared to receive from such an instructor as you a fund of usable information, and a fascination with the study which will make the field Of Church History a life-long delight and profit.
We install you today to be a practical trainer Of these young men who are to go out to the common people and instruct them in the doctrine and precepts of Christ; and we commit to you particularly the duty of furnishing them that information which shall be most helpful to them, so far as it can be gathered from the history Of the Church of Christ.
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