and heights of this divine progression, and to be no longer babes but men in Christ Jesus. It is the same lesson that he afterwards gave to the Hebrew Christians, “Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto maturity.” A babe is a very beautiful thing in its time and place, but a very ridiculous thing when dressed in an old man’s clothes, and rendered preposterous and absurd by an old man’s years. It is one thing to be a babe. It is another thing to be a dwarf. The