We publish to day the circular letter which was sent last summer by the Preachers to the University to the parents of all students during the academic year, 1886-87.
The abolition of the compulsory system here was hailed by the faculty and students alike as a step toward true worship. It was a recognition of the truth that observance of mere forms is meaningless. Whoever attends chapel now, attends it with the true religious spirit and whatever faith a man may profess, whether he be Protestant, Romanist or Jew, he must recognize that the same motive acts upon the man who is to him a heretic, as upon himself, a desire to worship the Deity. Consequently every one, unless he be a veritable pessimist, must rejoice at the success which the voluntary system has achieved.
The services last evening were peculiarly interesting, as so many of the popular preachers of Boston and this vicinity were able to join in conducting the first meeting of the year.
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