CHAPTER PAGE

Foreword 13

I The Home and the Boy 23

II The Public School and the Boy 32

III The Church and the Boy 37

IV The Sunday School or Church School 41

V The Boy and the Sunday School 48

VI Fundamental Principles in Sunday School Work with Boys 57

VII Method and Organization 62

VIII The Organized Sunday School Bible Class 74

IX Bible Study for Boys 93

X Through-the-Week Activities for Boys’ Organized Classes 104

XI The Boys’ Department in the Sunday School 120

XII Inter-Sunday School Effort for Boys 135

XIII The Older Boys’ Conference or Congress 138

XIV The Secondary Division or Teen Age Boys’ Crusade 158

XV Sex Education for Boys and the Sunday School 176

XVI The Teen Boy and Missions 193

XVII Temperance and the Teen Age 202

XVIII Building up the Boy’s Spiritual Life 208

XIX The Teen Age Teacher 215

XX Danger Points 265

XXI The Rural Sunday School 268

XXII The Relation of the Sunday
School to Community Organizations 277

FOREWORD

A great deal of material has come from the pens of various writers on boy life in the last few years.  Quite a little, also, has been written about the Sunday school, and a few attempts have been made to hitch the boy of the teen years and the Sunday school together.  Most of these attempts, however, have been far from successful; due, in part, to lack of knowledge of the boy on the one hand, or of the Sunday school on the other.  Generous criticism of the Sunday school has been made by experts on boy life, but this generally has been nullified by the fact that the critics have had no adequate touch with the Sunday school or its problems—­their bread-and-butter experience lay in another field.

“The Men and Religion Forward Movement,” in its continent-wide work, discovered not a few of the problems of the Sunday school, and attempted a partial solution in the volume on boys’ work in the “Messages” of the Movement.  It was but partial, however, first, because the volume tried to deal with the boy, the church and the community all together, and second, because it failed to take into account the fact that there are two sexes in the church school and that the boy, however important, constitutes but a section of the Sunday school and its problems.