ment in childish toys. Paul's argument is as applicable to us as to the Galatians, for what Jews were in this respect to Christians, we are to the blessed in heaven. Sons of God though we be, and co-heirs with Christ to the kingdom of heaven, still as long as we remain on earth, we are but as children, differing nothing from servants, subject to spiritual tutors and governors until the time appointed by our heavenly Father. Even should we live to maturity or old age, God's design is that we continue as children still — children in docility, in obedience, in humility. Christ lived to the age of thirty-three, yet we nowhere read of His emancipation. As a babe unborn He deferred to the decree of Augustus Caesar; newly-born, He submitted to the rite of circumcision; as boy, youth, and man, He was subject to Mary and Joseph; He paid tribute to Caesar and practised and counselled obedience to even the Scribes and Pharisees in all things lawful, and finally He allowed Himself to be led like a lamb to the slaughter. Though He passed through all the stages of life from infancy to manhood, He never outgrew the docility of childhood. That is the lesson His life holds for us, the lesson mankind so much needs and finds so hard to learn, the lesson He sought to teach when, taking a little child and placing him before the Apostles, He said: " Unless you become as little children, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven." The disciple is not above His master, and if we be not meek and humble of mind and heart, we are not true followers of Christ. We should recognize our limitations, feel-
