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Title: The encyclopedia of Sunday schools and religious education (Volume 2); giving a world-wide view of the history and progress of the Sunday school and the development of religious education...
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: McFarland, John Thomas, 1851-1913 Winchester, Benjamin S. (Benjamin Severance), 1868-1955
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Publisher: New York, London (etc.) : T. Nelson & sons
Contributing Library: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
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ifficulty in obtaining the attendanceof the smaller children at Sunday school,but when they reach the age at whichthey go to work, and with boys in manycases even before this, they leave the Sun-day school, and often at the same timecease attendance at church. So muchdoes this custom prevail that the Sundayschool is sometimes reproached as a fail-ure, because of the small proportion ofthose who in their earlier years attended,and are still in later life regular mem-bers of the congregations. With a view to stopping the leakagevarious plans are tried, all of themfounded upon that well-known charac-teristic of adolescent nature, the socialinstincts of young people of this age.They have a craving for society, they goabout in gangs, they delight in organizedgames, they will do for their club, orside, what they would not trouble to dofor themselves. Hence they may be ap-pealed to by the guild, the society, thebrigade, and they are ready to respond.Organizations have, therefore, been formed
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u G o iTi O CD s re! o rei +-» cl>,Mtn re! •G < o o m Guilds for Young People 501 Gunckel for banding young people together underreligious influence with some simply ex-pressed objects and rules. Foremost among them may be men-tioned the Girls Friendly Society (q.v.). Of somewhat similar character is theChurch of England Womens HelpSociety, a wide-spread guild for womenand girls of all ages and classes withappropriate rules of life. It has a juniorsection with very simple rules. The Church Lads Brigade was formedin 1891 with a view to retaining boys atthe time when they pass into the freedomof wage earning. The military organiza-tion appeals to them, and at the sametime teaches lessons of order and obedi-ence, while the manly games and the op-portunities of wholesome society supplya need of their nature at this age. At-tendance at the Bible class is a conditionof membership of the Brigade. The Church Scouts Patrols has bor-rowed what seemed the best features ofthe Boy Scout m

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