otatoes shall be the great names treasured. The higher the honor craved,
the more strenuous must be the service; if a man wants first prize, he
must get down to voluntary slavery. The old way to leadership was to knock
others down and climb up on them; the new way is to get underneath and
boost.

III

Jesus put himself under this law of leadership. We see from his words that
the cross was the outcome of a consistent principle adopted by him. The
rules he laid down for his apostolate were meant to bar out selfish
acquisition: "Freely ye received, freely give. Get you no gold, nor
silver, nor brass in your purses; no wallet for your journey, neither two
coats, nor shoes, nor staff; for the laborer is worthy of his food." It is
a significant fact that again and again religious leaders who really cared
for the condition of the people, have tried to create a genuine leadership
for them along the same lines; Francis of Assisi gathered his "little
brothers"; Peter Waldus his Bible teachers; Wycliffe his "poor preachers";
John Wesley his local preachers and itinerants; William Booth his ensigns
and captains with the big bass drum; and the entire foreign mission
propaganda calls for leaders who will go to the people and offers them
nothing but enough to live in health. Today practically the entire
Christian ministry, one of the most important bodies of men, has come
under the law of leadership for service. It was once, at least in its
upper-class sections, rich with unearned incomes, pervaded by graft, and
domineering in spirit; it is now a clean and plain-living profession;
whatever its shortcomings, graft and extortion are not of them.

The question is now, whether other professions will go through the same
historical process of cleansing. The religious spirit has pioneering
qualities; under its impulse men blaze the trail which broad social
movements or historical developments follow later. Greedy leadership first
seemed intolerable in the Church; after a time it may become intolerable
in politics and business. The trend of civilization is toward intelligent
service on plain pay. Educators, judges, scientists, doctors are on that
basis now. It has become dishonorable for them to use their positions for
a holdup. The great discoverers in the line of sero-therapy might have
taken toll in golden streams, but they did not. It would have been
contrary to the ethics of their profession. That means that their
profession is on