Religious Education in the Family

by Henry Frederick Cope

For a list of great hymns see Hymns You Ought to Know, edited by Henry F. Cope, and mentioned above. It contains one hundred standard hymns with a brief account of each hymn and of each author.

E. D. Eaton, "Hymns for Youth," Religious Education, December, 1912, VII, 509.

See report of the Commission on Worship in the Sunday School, in Religious Education, October, 1914.

Read especially the chapter on this subject in H. H. Hartshorne, Worship in the Sunday School. Columbia University, $1.25.

III. Topics for Discussion

1. What special advantages do songs and hymns have in their pedagogical power?

2. What hymns do you remember from childhood? In what way are these hymns valuable to you?

3. What changes would you like to see in the hymns the children learn today?

4. What difficulties do you find in training children to sing in the home?

5. Is it worth while to teach children to play? What games have special educational value? What games have religious significance or value? Give reasons for your opinions.