ness. In the ministry. Explain the importance of the five essentials of leadership mentioned in the text. Is leadership the result of birth or training? 5. A certain young man was elected principal of a strong high school because of his pull with the school board and his reputation as a college athlete. But he was a poor student, had no teaching experience-in short, was untrained for that kind of leadership. Do you think he was to be pitied or envied? Why? Is it foolish to accept responsible leadership on the basis of a pull? Why? 6. In trying to grow into leadership, what sort of training would you try to get? How important is a college education, and how valuable for leadership? Just how would you like best to make your life count in the world? FOR FURTHER STUDY AND HONOR WORK 7. What price did Jesus and his disciples have to pay for their leadership in service? Was it worth what it cost them? Discover and list some of the things that are worth more than life. 8. Just what do you think of Jesus' teaching that a true leader must be a servant? In the case of those two famous surgeons, how does this ideal work out? Strike a balance between what their leadership costs them and the rewards they get from it. Does such costly leadership pay? 9. Make a study of the leadership of our President. Show how it is really leadership in service. List the rewards and satisfactions of the position; then make a list of what such leadership costs in actual sacrifice as well as preparation. Was it all worth what it cost President Wilson, for example? CHAPTER XI THE INWARDNESS OF CHARACTER AFTER studying these interesting problems of personal growth, we now come to some fundamental questions of right and wrong. It is astonishing what different opinions people have about what is right and what is wrong, and how even the same person's opinions change as he grows older. As our experience in life broadens, our conscience gets clearer and truer. An inexperienced child has to depend largely upon the consciences of others, but by the age of sixteen our judgment of what is right becomes dependable, and young people of this age are usually very conscientious. Sometimes they become too sensitive and conscience becomes a hard master, setting ideals of perfection that are both difficult and unreasonable. They make secret vows to God sometimes, like the young girl who vowed she would pray for the heathen, wherever she was, every morning at ten. As her idea of prayer included kneeling, it was sometimes embarrassing. So when the hour of ten came while she was in school, she would contrive to touch one knee to the floor in picking up a pencil or something else she had managed to drop for the purpose, so as to fulfill her vow! Are you conscientious in streaks?-A story is told of a highwayman who had no scruples against assaulting and robbing a traveler, and eating his lunch; but he was seen to remove carefully the slices of meat from the stolen sandwiches before eating them. It happened to be Friday, and his religious scruples warned him it was wrong to eat meat that day! The trouble with him, as |