size physical strength or courage, and at another intellectual power. Again he may seek for the good and the beautiful and finally for the morally perfect. The moral ideal is the highest form of the ideal and therefore the most potent because it embodies all of the other ideal elements. Jesus is God's answer to the hidden hunger of the world for the morally perfect. It is of the very first importance that teachers so present Jesus that He will satisfy the craving of the ideal at each stage of a boy's development. A failure at any one point of development may prove disastrous in the life of a lad. All that we have been saying holds true, when properly adapted, in the life of the growing girl.

9. The Law of the Cross.-In addition to its being a sense of dependence upon God, religion is an instinctive uneasiness of the soul that something is wrong until fellowship with a holy and good God is made possible. This sense of separation springs out of the sense of sin in the presence of the ideal, and God's response to the demand of the ideal alone can satisfy the moral sense of man. God in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself is the big central fact of the Cross.

But the Cross is something more than this, it is love. Christianity is the Christ of Calvary in the human heart going out in passionate love to one's fellowmen. Dr. Parkhurst says, "God and one man could make any other religion, but it requires God and two men to make Christianity."

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Christian love is the supreme element in the moral ideal and is so real and so compelling that a man longs to be able to lay down his life for his fellowmen. He will die for the political and industrial, for the physical and intellectual, for the moral and spiritual freedom of men. We mention all of these because in history men have died for each one of these aspects of freedom. Jesus died that men might in all respects become free. The Christian may strive and fail to attain but his idealism will not permit him to put limitations to the love of Christ expressed in service and sacrifice.

When a man is thus reconciled to God and Christ becomes the controlling center and love the dominant motive in his life, a new law is set in motion, namely, the law of regeneration. Such a man is born from above and all his life is ordered by its relation to Christ.

The law of the Cross is thus seen to embody four very primary principles which are potent factors in moral and religious education, the law of reconciliation, the law of love, the law of self-sacrifice, and the law of regeneration. The law of the Cross is enshrined not so much in a principle as in a person, and the teacher, in presenting the Cross, must make sure to reveal upon it, Jesus, the God-man, the perfect embodiment of both the Divine and the human ideal, for herein lies all of its moral significance and religious potency.

10. The Law of Liberty.-When a man's life is completely dominated by the powerful personality

of Jesus he discovers for the first time the meaning of the perfect law of liberty. He is a free man in Christ Jesus and the freedom is as illimitable as the truth. All education aims at the freedom of the will, and it is one of the most wonderful of all things that when Jesus comes into a man's life and takes control of his will, his impulses and his thoughts, he does not thereby violate his personality or limit his natural freedom. In yielding

one's will to the will of Christ a man discovers his true and largest self. There is a marvelous exaltation and self-assertion as well as humility and gratitude in these words of the Apostle Paul: “I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me."

11. The Law of Leadership.-When we were boys and played "Stump the Leader," we did not know that we were putting ourselves under the operation of an important educational law. Without great leaders human progress is impossible. Men instinctively recognize the presence of the qualities of true leadership and when they do this they are ready to follow any real leader. There are certain qualities of leadership latent in all men and education should aim to develop them. Among the many qualities we might mention initiative, conviction, self-confidence, self-control, courage, and loyalty,

A perfect leader is an ideal creation of man. He is the resultant of bringing together the finest qualities of leadership possessed by many men. The power of leadership may even reside in the ideal itself so that in a very true sense men, when rightly educated, will follow the leadership of their ideals quite independent of the presence of a human leader.

On the twenty-fifth of July, 1918, I met three soldiers on the street in Paris. They were members of the Second Division and had just come from the battle front after ten days of furious fighting. After a hearty greeting and expression of real pride in the American soldier I said to them: "Well, boys, you have won a glorious victory, you have helped make history in the last ten days."

"We sure did give those Dutchmen 'hell,'" was the laconic reply of the oldest one of the three, "but it cost us heavy to do it. Our company went into the fight two hundred and fifty-six strong and only twenty-two of us came out untouched." Their faces grew sober, a strange far away look came into their eyes and a shade of anguish for fallen comrades seemed to pass over their countenances. For one intense moment they lived through those terrible ten days.

"How did it come about?" I inquired, "that you lost so heavily when you were driving the Germans back all the time!"

Then the youngest of the three, a lad of eighteen years, answered. His face lightened up and he

spoke with the enthusiasm of a high school boy describing a football victory.

"It was just like this, mister," he said, "Right at the start-off we lost all of our officers and there was no one to tell us where to stop. So we just went on and on and never thought of turning back."

"He that putteth his hand to the plow and turneth back is not worthy of Me," said Jesus. And just because He set Himself steadfastly to go toward Jerusalem and went on and on and never thought of turning back, Jesus has revealed Himself as the embodiment of the ideal leader of men.

12. The Law of Self-Determination.-The man who brings himself into right relations to the above mentioned laws is bound sooner or later to discover another law in his being struggling for expression. It is the law of self-determination or self-government. Christian education inevitably leads to and prepares for democracy. It is inconceivable that a lad like the one above mentioned who will fight on and on for his ideals when human leadership has fallen all about him should be the petty pawn of strutting kings or soul-debauching politicians. In a night we have seen mere boys become men and leaders of men and we have thereby discovered anew the educational value of teaching children the meaning of self-government. For a parent or teacher to crush the will of a boy or to rob him of the right to make for himself great choices and determine vital issues is to engage in a barbarous mishandling of educational laws.