s team.

Did you ever think that your parents are constantly making "sacrifice
hits" for you? Whenever your mother goes without a new dress in order
that you may have a better suit of clothes; whenever your father gives
up some pleasure to keep you in school, they are making a sacrifice hit
for you.

And after all, boys and girls, that is about the only way the world has
ever moved very far ahead. Socrates, an old Greek, made a sacrifice hit
when he was put to death in prison with poison, because he wanted to
make the young men of Athens wiser. Martin Luther made a sacrifice hit
when he went to Worms, although he feared the Pope would kill him. But
he was determined to get liberty for the people.

But the biggest sacrifice hit that was ever made was made by Christ when
He was crucified on Calvary, in order that the world might know that God
was a Father and loved His children.

And every boy and girl who would follow in the footsteps of Christ, and
would be strong and noble, must be prepared to make sacrifice hits,--to
forget themselves and do things for the sake of others. Jesus said, "I
came not to be ministered unto, but to minister." And a minister is one
who serves, one who makes sacrifice hits.

THE LIBERTY OF OBEDIENCE

I know it would seem strange if I told you that every boy and girl has
to be tied to something in order that he may be free. And yet that is
the exact truth.

The majority of you no doubt know what the multiplication-table is, and
I am sure you have thought it a pretty disagreeable thing. Perhaps you
have wondered why seven times eight is always fifty-six, and why your
teacher insists that it shall be that every time. You don't see why it
can't be fifty-five just once, or possibly fifty-seven. But, no, sir; it
is _always_ fifty-six.

When you get farther along in life I believe you will be glad to know
that seven times eight is _always_ fifty-six, whether you meet it in the
grocery-store, or in the bank, or in New York, or in Philadelphia, or in
China; for it will be a comfort to know that the multiplication-table
does not change, like many other things, as you go from place to place.
Whenever or wherever you meet it, it is always the same. Now, because
you were tied to that table as a boy or girl, you will be free to go
where you like with it in after-life.

The same is true about riding a bicycle. You know that in order to be
free to ride a bicycle you must obey the rules of r