Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE PRINCIPLES OF CHURCH WORK WITH BOYS Returning to our main issue, church work with boys, we may quiet the fears of the timorous by saying at the outset that church work with boys is simply extension of the Sunday-school. The Sunday-school is the exercise of the teaching function of the church among its young, and work with boys is larger and more effective teaching. We may state, then, as our first principle in work with boys, that it is the outgrowth of the church school. The First Principle: The Extension of the Sunday-school The wisest way to approach boys socially is upon the basis of the Sunday-school class as the integer. The ideal Sunday-school is one completely organized in these two directions: educationally, a series of graded textbooks for every grade of pupils; socially, a series of graded social opportunities for every grade of pupils. In the large city school this would mean that, just as each class meets regularly to study on Sunday, so it also meets regularly, though not necessarily so often, to have fellowship together on a week day. In the smaller school it meansthat classes of the same approximate grades will meet in this way. In the little school it means that boys of quite diverse ages will meet thus. It seems to the writer invariably wise that all the social organizations of the Church for young people should be regarded as extensions of the Sunday-school. He is convinced that if the school had recognized this larger function a little earlier, the Christian Endeavor movement would never have gone off as a separate educational and social movement. And even now he believes it feasible to bring it back by insisting that it is the social organization for certain definite grades of the school. This correlation prevents a duplication of method an...