Fifty-two short talks to children on scriptural texts. It is designed as a help to all workers among children, leaders in young people’s societies and Sabbath school teachers.
Hodgson, Geraldine. Primitive Christian education. *$1.50. Scribner.
Miss Hodgson’s “main purpose is to prove the falseness of the statement, often made in exaggerated language, that the Christian fathers were enemies of education, and to show, by illustrative extracts from the writings of representative teachers of the early church, what were really their methods and the character of their educational work. A sketch of Graeco-Roman education, as given in the schools of the Roman empire, is followed by an account of the catechetical system of the fathers. Separate chapters are devoted to St. Cyril of Jerusalem, St. Clement of Alexandria, and St. Jerome. The attitude of the Christian teachers to pagan learning is examined, and their methods are set forth and justified.” Lond. Times.
+ Bib. World. 28: 160. Ag. ’06. 20w.
“She has searched the sources diligently, but not always used them critically, nor constructed from her mass of material a consistent and orderly edifice of fact.”
+ – Ind. 61: 937. O. 18, ’06. 110w. Lit. D. 33: 549. O. 20, ’06. 310w.
“Miss Hodgson has brought together some interesting and suggestive passages, which any student of teaching would gain by reading, and she has given pleasant glimpses by the way of the human side of the early Christian society.”
+ Lond. Times. 5: 126. Ap. 6, ’06. 670w.
“Miss Hodgson has shed light on a subject imperfectly known.”