Knowledge and watchfulness are the two cherubim with the flaming sword turning all ways to guard the young tree of life and bar the way of every low and creeping thing.

If I may venture in some sort to reverse our Lord's words, I should say His word to all mothers is, "What I say unto all I say especially unto you, _Watch_." But there is another and a deeper sense in which the root of the evil is first planted and nourished in the nursery.

If we are to contend with this deadly peril to soul and body, I cannot but feel that we must bring about a radical change in the training of our boys.

There must be some radical defect in that training for men to take the attitude they do.

I do not mean bad, dissipated men, but men who in all other relations of life would be designated fairly good men.