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Milton Valentine, Class of 1850, was College President from 1868-84. He was also Professor of Intellectual and Moral Science at Pennsylvania College andrecipient of an honorary degree in 1866. ; Full Fidelity to God's Gifts. 617 time and carry with him into eternity. As young men, you have no work more important to do for yourselves, none, perhaps, for the glory of God and the good of men, than the right formation and development of your character, the shaping of your essential being, and moulding it into a form of beauty that will be a joy and a blessing forever. It must be evident to you all, that the very spirit of universal and comprehensive duty, is fundamental in right character. A consent to be unfaithful to some parts of duty, is an unfaithful spirit; and cannot be the central life about which character will form in integrity and beauty. It forms around a rot. It is a spirit of sin at its very heart. The kingdom of heaven within you, can allow no such spirit of rebellion—Milton's Satan-led force that is to be cast over the battlements. It is, indeed, the very principle of all disobedience, and treason to the divine government, to undertake to choose the extent to which you will obey, or hold the things of God subject to the rule of fidelity. Thus, the spirit of universal fidelity is essential to right character—is the necessary central life to aggregate character about itself. So, the practice of this fidelity is necessary. The gifts of God are not only elements of responsibility, but means of spiritual culture and development. Character needs them,—-needs the economical use of them all. The human soul has blessed possibilities in it beyond the power of all of them fully to unfold. The most careful husbandry of the means will still leave things before you, to wvhich noble aspiration may, like an eager Paul, still press forward. The fragments that you waste, and the portions that you lose, are so much reduction from your true and possible measure of attainment. In a world where there are so many ...