Religious Education in the Family

by Henry Frederick Cope

E. C. Wilm, Culture of Religion, chaps. i, ii. Pilgrim Press, $0.75.

C. W. Rischell, The Child as God's Child. Methodist Book Concern, $0.75.

E. E. Read Mumford, The Dawn of Character. Longmans, Green & Co., $1.20. See especially chap. xii on "The Dawn of Religion."

III. Topics for Discussion

1. How would you define education?

2. What is the difference between education and religious education?

3. What makes the home especially effective in education?

4. Is it true that it is possible to discover the laws of growth and so determine the development of character?

5. Recall any very early manifestations of religious character in small children. What would you regard as the best kind of manifestation?

6. What is the essential principle of the right life? How may we develop this in childhood?