One thing must strike you as inexplicable: that I relinquish my studies here so suddenly.

This arises from the fact that I have not kept you perfectly informed concerning the change my mind has for some time been undergoing with regard to the object and end of study, its office and its benefits.

I kept silent, thinking that my views might be but temporary, and that it was unnecessary to trouble you with them.

My simple faith is, in a few words, that we must first seek the kingdom of God, and then all necessary things will be given us.

And this kingdom is not found through nature, philosophy, science, art, or by any other method than that of the Gospel: the perfect surrender of the whole heart to God." We stop here to remark that such expressions as these are neither to be taken as evidences of a passing disgust for the drudgery of text-book tasks, nor as signs of an indolent disposition.