Address delivered by The Right Hon. The Earl of Carlisle, at the ceremony of his installation as The Lord Rector of Marischal College and University, Aberdeen, on Wednesday, 31st March, 1853.

  • Carlisle, George William Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1802-1864
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1853
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Credit: Address delivered by The Right Hon. The Earl of Carlisle, at the ceremony of his installation as The Lord Rector of Marischal College and University, Aberdeen, on Wednesday, 31st March, 1853. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Gospel high above all others, as I assuredly consider it to be in dignity, in privilege, in im¬ portance, I by no means intend to convey that it behoves every one to aim at making it his own ; on the contrary, I hold it to be the clear duty of a man to ascertain with as much sin¬ cerity of mind as he can bring to the momentous inquiry, what the calling in life is for which the apparent arrangements of Providence, and his own natural gifts, best adapt him; and then, when he has made the decision, (I am of course speaking thus of the general run of cases, as there can scarcely be any universal or unbend¬ ing law applicable to such matters,) to adhere to the course he has entered upon with the utmost stedfastness of purpose. This, it will be always fair for him to presume, is his allotted sphere—his appropriate theatre of action ; keep¬ ing within this, he appears warranted to hope for the blessing from above—departing from this, he seems to throw all on his own respon¬ sibility ; he is in danger of incurring the re¬ proach of Reuben— “ Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.” To exhort you, collectively, to diligence, to stimulate you to ardour, during these golden hours now put at your command for the undis-