“THE MATINÉE HAT”

all that he had and give it to the poor”?
But there is not really any inconsistency
in these two suggestions. It has never
been sufficiently insisted upon by modern
divines, by some perhaps not even under-
stood, that Christ in His teaching like
Buddha differentiated between the lay-
man and the initiate. He saw in the
rich young man—who had kept all the
Commandments from his youth upwards
and whom He loved—an initiate. And
He was grieved that the young man was
not yet prepared: that the fine spiritual
qualities that He discerned in him should
be wasted upon mundane matters con-
nected with the distribution of wealth
—an occupation not in itself necessarily
ignoble, but unworthy of the higher
gifts possessed by the young man in
conjunction with his wealth.

It is not the mission of any individual
to seek to correct the display of any
particular fault in any other individual;
but it should be the aim of all, by
example, and especially by precept (the
advantage of example over precept has

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