lesser things, changing and making them over into the best.  Thus the Kingdom is where life appreciates, enjoys, respects, and honors all of God’s gifts, whether it be body, mind, social relations, or material or spiritual things.  The task of the Sunday school, then, is to reach out unswervingly, enthusiastically after these ends for the adolescent boy.  Like the commandments, he that transgresseth in one fails in all, in the largest, truest sense.

The work of the Sunday school, summed up briefly, is to round out the boy by all good things that he may see and know and acknowledge Jesus Christ, the Master of Men, as the Master and Lord of his life, too.  Any step less than the joyous acceptance of the Son of God as Saviour of his life is to miss the mark entirely.  This is the end of all Sunday school principle and method.

Further, Jesus Christ, as Saviour of Life, is not an idea, a theory, a belief, but a practical, everyday, every-minute influence.  “For me to live is Christ.”  From this time forth everything in life is done in the Christ-spirit.  The boy does not cease to be a boy in the acceptance.  He is now a Christian boy, not a mature, Christian man.  He still loves play, but play is not marred now by the tricks that minister to self.  Play ministers now both to self and others.  It does not nor cannot leave out self, however.  It saves self.  So, with all things else in life, real life that is lived seven days in the week, twenty-four hours in the day among his fellows—­and one week following without break the other.  Saviour of Life means saviour of body, of mind, of social contacts, of spirit.  It means more than formal religion, the attendance of services, the saying of prayers, the observance of customs—­these are all excellent and necessary, but to be saved by the Saviour of Men means new life, or life with a new, saved meaning:  “I come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly” (overflowingly).  This is the great objective of the Sunday school.

As soon as a life knows Jesus as Saviour, it asks the question, “What wilt thou have me to do, Lord?” Notice, it is not, what shall I believe, or what shall I cast out of my life?  Doing regulates both of these, and the “expulsive power of a new affection” settles nearly every problem by displacement.  This, after all, is Christianity—­to be “In Christ.”  “Not to be ministered unto, but to minister.”  “He that would be greatest, let him be the servant of all.”  The quality of Christianity is Service.  The task of the Sunday school is the raising of the life by information, inspiration and opportunity to its highest possible attainment.  Christian service is both the highest and the best.  To the acknowledgment of Jesus as Saviour and Lord, then, must be added the free, voluntary, loving service for others in His name.  This is the Upbuilding of the Spiritual Life of the Boy.

What shall be used, then, for this purpose?  Everything that will minister to the result—­Organization, Leadership, Bible Study, Through-the-Week Activity, Material Equipment, Teaching, Song, Prayer, Reproof, Inspiration, Guidance, and all else that the Sunday school may know or discover.  Two factors in it all are preeminent:  Christ and the Boy.  All else are but means.  The boy a loving, serving follower of his Lord!  This is the endless end.