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Seeker’s Charges. Mather remarks upon the importance of habits of study—‘There never was an eminent man, who was not an industrious man. You must be diligent in your business, if you hope to stand in any desirable circumstance before that Great King, to whose service you are dedicated.’ Student and Pastor, pp. 195, 196. ‘I have directed close attention to this subject’ (remarks a professor in an American Theological Seminary), ‘and the result, without one solitary exception is, that I never knew an individual to gain any considerable mass of really digested and valuable knowledge, without unwearied industry.’ Professor Miller’s Letters on Clerical Habits addressed to a Student in the Seminary at Princeton, N. J. p. 256. It was an excellent reply to a complaint of a bad memory as a discouragement from study; Lege, lege; aliquid horebit (the law, the law, something of Horeb – Exo 3.1; 1King 19.8). That sentence in Prov. 14.23, deserves to be written in letters of gold upon your study table—“In all labour there is profit.” To another young Ministerial student it was said—‘Abhor one hour of idleness, as you would be ashamed of one hour of drunkenness.’—Life of Mr. Thomas Shepard, in Mather’s New England, Book IV.