it; but at the same time the father's heart swells with pride, ay, even
with joy, that his son should have been true to the highest thing in the
world--duty.

He Who said, "I come not to do mine own will but the will of Him that
sent Me," also said, "I lay My life down of Myself, no man taketh it
from Me." Herein is the discipline of sacrifice complete by the using
of one's own will to surrender it absolutely to the will of another.

We have spoken so fully of the surrenders of will being made on all
sides that we need say no more now on that point, but for further
illustration let us turn our thoughts in a somewhat fresh direction.

The example of Belgium is a living witness of the power of
self-sacrifice.

G.K. Chesterton has put forth a striking pamphlet entitled "The
Martyrdom of Belgium"; in it he says:

"There are certain quite unique and arresting features about the case
of Belgium. To begin with, it cannot be too much considered what a
daring stroke of statesmanship--far-sighted, perhaps, but of frightful
courage--the King of the Belgians ventured in resisting at all. Of
that statesmanship we had the whole advantage, and Belgium the whole
disadvantage: she saved France, she saved England--herself she could
not save."


Had Belgium yielded instead of standing out, then, humanly speaking,
nothing could have averted the immediate success of the German dash