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Life in the making: 335 total pages.

He needs to be aided in discerning between what is right and what is wrong in his conduct; he needs to realize that he has power to choose to do right; he needs to have the desire and purpose to do right quickened within him; he needs to understand that to do the right its God's will for him. The picturing of right conduct through stories will make a deeper impres­sion upon his mind than learning moral precepts. It into be remembered that he thinks almost wholly in concrete terms. Precepts and laws are necessarily expressed in terms of abstract ideas, while the con-duct which the story pictures is concrete. Next to his need of being aided in making moral discrimina­tions the child needs to have the right, the good, and the true made attractive and desirable. It is sometimes said that obedience is the funda- 74 LIFE IN THE MAKING mental moral virtue. But what do we mean by obedience? Is it to be desired that the child shall act automatically in response to commands, reason-able or unreasonable, addressed to him by parents and teachers,

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