Mr. Gladstone delivered an address to the students of Marl-
borough College this day week, and especially congratulated them on the simple habits of Marlborough, as compared with those of Eton, and he hoped that in an age in which wealth is increasing so rapidly " they would attach the true value to these simpler habits, and that they might tend to guard them against Mammon - worship. Boys, however, are not very liable, we think, to this disease. It is later, when they come to earn money for themselves, to find the difficulty of earning it, and the importance it gives to those who have it, that this idolatry is apt to grow upon them. Indeed, with the majority of Mammon-worshippers, it is at least quite as much the power of getting wealth as the wealth itself that they really worship ; and that, though certainly an ignoble worship, is not nearly so ignoble as the worship of wealth for its own sake, and considered separ- ately from the power of obtaining it. Boys, for the most part, think but little of the power of accumulating wealth, and more- over, think of it rather slightingly.
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