into the rough world of a large school when they are
fitter for the nursery, and whom you might appeal to your boys to look
after and protect, so far as they are able; and not only these, but to
side with every boy who is being bullied for acting up to his conscience
or because he has not the pluck to stand up for himself.

In conclusion, I would earnestly ask you to believe in your own power
when united to the knowledge which is necessary to direct it. "A man is
what a woman makes him," says the old saw. Look back upon the men you
have known who have been touched to finest issues, and you will find,
with few exceptions, that they are the shaping of a noble woman's
hands--a noble mother, a noble wife, a noble sister. Doubt not, but
earnestly believe that with those wonderful shaping hands of yours you
can mould that boy of yours into the manhood of Sir Galahad, "whose
strength was as the strength of ten because his heart was pure"; that
you can send him forth into the world like King Arthur, of whom our own
poet, Spenser, says, that the poorest, the most unprotected girl could
feel that

"All the while he by his side her bore
She was as safe as in a sanctuary."

Nay, may I not go further still and say that by the grace of God you can
send him forth "made of a woman" in the image of the strong and tender
Manhood of Jesus Christ, to Whom even the poor lost girls out of the
street could come and know that here was a Man who would not drag them
down, but lift them up; believing in Whom, clinging to Whom, trusting in
Whom, they grew no longer lost and degraded, but splendid saints of the
Christian Church.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 11: _Morality in Public Schools_, by Dr. Butler, Master of
Trinity College, Cambridge, and late Head-Master of Harrow.]

[Footnote 12: _The Preservation of Health_, by Clement Dukes, M.D.,
M.R.C.S., Howard Medallist, Statistical Society of London, p. 150.]

[Footnote 13: _Ibid._, p. 157.]

[Footnote 14: _A Confidential Talk with the Boys of America_, by J.M.
Dick. Fleming H. Revell Co.]

[Footnote 15: See Appendix.]

[Footnote 16: See _Parents' Review_, No. 5, July, 1895, p. 351.]

[Footnote 17: have quoted here from _The Ascent of Man_ by Professor
Drummond, pp. 292, 293; but any standard work on botany will give you
the method of the fertilization of plants in greater detail.]

[Footnote 18: _Ibid._, p. 310.]

[Footnote 19: Erroneously called neuter, as in reality it is an