ERE man has never yet learned Nature's art of being absolutely and entirely economical. The Divine Man gave the clue to it when he set the child in the midst. Paul followed this up with the caution against provoking the children to wrath and then prescribing their nurture in the admonition of the Lord. Perhaps no text in the New Testament has been more piously quoted and disregarded than this. The idea of admonition is pressed while that of nurture has dropped out, and with it the economy of the soul and of all life.
Michelet caught the point when he said, "No consecrated absurdity would have stood its ground in the world if the man had not silenced the objection of the child." And a prophet of our day, Bishop Phillips Brooks, summed the whole matter to the church's shame-when he wrote, "He who helps a child helps humanity with a