So certainly had I; yet no one of my equals gained any ascendancy over me, nor perhaps could I have looked up to any for advice.

In some the intellect, in others the religious qualities, were as yet insufficiently developed: in part also I wanted discrimination, and did not well pick out the profounder minds of my acquaintance.
However, on my very first residence in College, I received a useful lesson from another freshman,--a grave and thoughtful person, older (I imagine) than most youths in their first term.

Some readers may be amused, as well as surprized, when I name the delicate question on which I got into discussion with my fellow freshman.

I had learned from Evangelical books, that there is a _twofold_ imputation to every saint,--not of the "sufferings" only, but also of the "righteousness" of Christ.

They alleged that, while the sufferings of Jesus are a compensation for the guilt of the believer and make him innocent, yet this suffices not to give him a title to heavenly glory; for which he must over and above be invested in active righteousness, by all Christ's good works being made over to him.