CHAPTER XIII

SOME UNCONSIDERED ASPECTS OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

1. Show how the principle of authority bears on religious teaching.

2. In what ideas do the children of our day need especially to be brought up?

3. How do certain questions ‘in the air’ militate against the sense of authority?

4. In what respects does authority work like a good and just national government?

5. Discuss authority in connection with punishment.

6. Discuss each of the various themes suggested in connection with the subject of authority in the religious life.

7. Show that lines of habit are as important for the religious as for the physical, moral, and intellectual life.

8. How would you endeavour to keep a child in the habit of the thought of God?

9. Discuss the question of reverent attitudes.

10. How would you use ‘because of the angels’ in this connection?

11. Show the importance of regularity in time and place in children’s prayers.

12. Why should not their evening prayers be left till bedtime?

13. What is to be said of little text-books?

14. Show the danger of losing the narrative teaching of the Scriptures.

15. Why should not children be encouraged in long readings or long prayers?

16. How should the habit of praise be fostered?

17. Show the value of the habit of Sunday-keeping, and describe a child’s Sunday.

18. Write your reflections on each of the themes suggested in connection with the habits of the religious life.

19. Show the importance of selecting the inspiring ideas we propose to give children in the things of the Divine life.

20. What other point demands our care?

21. What vitalising idea is of first importance in the teaching of children?

22. How should children be taught that the essence of Christianity is devotion to a Person?

23. Why is it necessary to teach children that there is a Saviour of the world?

24. What teaching would you give them about the work of the Holy Spirit?

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