A sermon preached before the University of Cambridge, June 29, 1806, being Commencement Sunday / [Edward Maltby].

  • Edward Maltby
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1806
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    our worldly undertakings with success. It causes many an hour to pass cheerfully and agreeably ; ^nd it compensates for the want of those external advantages, which the worthless or inconsiderate are disposed to regard as the only objects of pursuit, and the only incitements to ambition. The Scholar is animated with a spirit of independence, which scorns to forfeit its own approbation by any unworthy act, however it be enforced by the menace of ill or the prospect of gain. The conscientious devotion of our time to the business assigned us in our respective stations, although it may not lead to worldly distinctions, yet will always ensure a comfortable sufficiency, and with it will obtain, what is ever dear to a generous and enlightened mind, the applause of the wise and good. Such a man, at the close of life, will undoubtedly look forward, as his surest hope and brightest reward, to the approbation of his Heavenly Judge. Infinitely beyond all earthly considerations will he prize “ the gift of God, eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord*.” But he will not be insensible to the opinion of his fellow men ; of those, who, like him, have pursued their career of honourable and useful employment,—who, like him, have secured “ the testimony of a good conscience” by the diligent performance of the duties attached to their respective stations. He will not lose sight of the glorious prospects, which open to his view in another state of being; yet assuredly he will cast one lingering look upon that state, which he soon must leave. He will entertain that love of honest famef, which, in every age and under every dispensation, has supplied an incitement to useful exer¬ tion; and he may indulge the wish that some kindred mind will pay a tribute to his memory, generous and animated as the following: Aoyov roig cc^i(TTOig nrsg) ocvtov tcoctocXsXoittbv, ccvfyog £lov £e£icoKcogy vipyXcTSpov, co Koc^cov ocvd^ocTrodcodecTTOCTB^ rov (rev y,vv}y,a,Tog^ kou ev &S&OCtOT£()CO %C0(>!cp KCCTBtrKBVOCCTfjLBVOV * Rom. vi. 23. f See the Peroration of Cicero's III. Catilinarian, and the Speech for Marcellus, edit. Ern. Tom. II. p. 1414. + Lucian. Diogen. et Mausol. edit. Hemsterhus. Tom. I. p. 431. “ Behind him hath he “ left a name among the truly good, having lived the life of a man:-a name more “ lofty, thou most abject of Carian slaves, than even thine own sepulchre, and raised upon u a more secure foundation.”
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