ABSTRACT
This chapter considers how the principle of authority bears on religious teaching. The sense of duty, more or less illuminated, or more or less benighted, is always relative to a ruler with whom it rests to say 'Thou shalt' or 'Thou shalt not'. The most important part of educationalists subject remains to be considered-the inspiring ideas they propose to give children in the things of the divine life. The idea of Christ their King is fitted to touch springs of conduct and to rouse the enthusiasm of loyalty in children, who have it in them, as they all know, to bestow heroic devotion on that which they find heroic. Most Christian parents teach their children to recognise the indwelling of the Holy Ghost, the Comforter; they expand the ideas expressed in- "Enable with perpetual light The dulness of our blinded sight".
