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Title: The Boy and the Sunday School
A Manual of Principle and Method for the Work of the Sunday
School with Teen Age Boys

Author: John L. Alexander

Release Date: May 28, 2005 [EBook #15923]

Language: English

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THE BOY
AND THE
SUNDAY SCHOOL

A Manual of Principle and Method for
the Work of the Sunday School
with Teen Age Boys

JOHN L. ALEXANDER

_Superintendent Secondary Division
International Sunday School Association
Author and Editor "Boy Training," "The Sunday
School and the Teens," "Boys' Hand
Book, Boy Scouts of America"
"Sex Instruction for Boys," etc_.

=Introduction by=
MARION LAWRANCE

_General Secretary, World's and
International Sunday School Associations_

ASSOCIATION PRESS
NEW YORK: 347 MADISON AVENUE
1920

COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY
THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS

THIS LITTLE BOOK IS DEDICATED TO THE MEN WHO MUST FACE ALL THE PROBLEMS
OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL--TO THE MEN WHO HOLD THE KEY TO ALL THE LIFE AND
PROGRESS OF THE SCHOOL--THE SUPERINTENDENTS OF NORTH AMERICA.

INTRODUCTION

The Sunday school chapter of Church history is now being written. It
comes late in the volume, but those who are writing it and those who are
reading it realize--as never before--that the Sunday school is rapidly
coming to its rightful place. In the Sunday school, as elsewhere, it is
the little child who has led the way to improvement. The commanding
appeal of the little ones opened the door of advance, and, as a result,
the Elementary Division of the school has outstripped the rest in its
efficiency.

Where children go adults will follow, and so we discover that the Adult
Division was the next to receive attention, until today its manly
strength and power are the admiration of the Church.

Strange as it may seem, it is nevertheless true, that the middle
division, called the Secondary