I. References for Study

     H.C.  King, Personal and Ideal Elements in Education, pp. 105-27. 
     Macmillan, $1.50.

     E.D.  Starbuck, The Psychology of Religion, chaps., xvi-xxi. 
     Scribner, $1.50.

     II.  Further Reading

     1.  ON YOUTH

     C.R.  Brown, The Young Man’s Affairs.  Crowell, $1.00.

     Wayne, Building the Young Man.  McClurg, $0.50.

     Swift, Youth and the Race.  Scribner, $1.50.

     Wilson, Making the Most of Ourselves.  McClurg, $1.00.

     2.  ON RECREATIONS

     L.C.  Lillie, The Story of Music and the Musicians.  Harper, $0.60.

     Gustav Kobbe, How to Appreciate Music.  Moffat, $1.50.

     P. Chubb, Festivals and Plays.  Harper, $2.00.

     Dramatics in the Home, Children in the Theater, Problems of
     Dramatic Plays, monographs published by the American Institute of
     Child Life.  Philadelphia, Pa.

     L.H.  Gulick, Popular Recreation and Public Morality.  American
     Unitarian Association.  Free.

     M. Fowler, Morality of Social Pleasures.  Longmans, $1.00.

     Addams, The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets.  Macmillan,
     $1.25.

The moving-picture or cinema presents a problem to parents; see Herbert A. Jump, The Religious Possibilities of the Motion Picture (a pamphlet) and Vaudeville and Moving Pictures, a report of an investigation in Portland, Ore. Reed College Record, No. 16.

     III.  Topics for Discussion

     1.  What are the reasons why young people leave home?

     2.  Where do the young men and young women whom you know spend their
     evenings?  Why is this the case?

     3.  Mention the special needs of young people in the family.

     4.  What are the difficulties in maintaining the friendship of our
     young people?

     5.  Have you ever seen evidences of the phase mentioned as aversion
     to parents?

     6.  What are some common mistakes of treating the subject of
     courtship?

     7.  What are the special social needs of young people?

     8.  What is the religious significance of the period of social
     awakening?

     9.  What are the special dangerous tendencies in public amusements?

     10.  How does the social instinct express itself in social service?

     11.  What of the relation of “wild oats” to directed work?

     12.  What may be done for vocational direction in the family?

CHAPTER XVII

THE FAMILY AND THE CHURCH

If the family is engaged in the development of religious character through its life and organization, it ought somehow to find very close relations with the other great social institution engaged in precisely the same work, the church.  Both churches and homes are agencies of religious education.  In a state which separates the ecclesiastical and the civil functions, where freedom of conscience is fully maintained, these two are the only religious agencies engaged in education.