0).

Foster.--Starting to Teach (.40).

James.--Talks to Teachers ($1.50).

Kirkpatrick.--Individual in the Making ($1.25).

McElfresh.--Training of Sunday-school Teachers (_in preparation_).

Schauffler.--Lamoreaux-Brumbaugh-Lawrance. Training the Teacher ($1.00).

XX

DANGER POINTS

A real danger lies in boys' groups which are seemingly organized, yet
which really have no organization. A few Bible classes have officers,
such as president, secretary, and treasurer, and a few standing
committees, all of whom take no real part in the class life, the teacher
doing everything himself and attempting to deceive the boys by giving
them a show of organization. Such classes are detrimental to the spirit
of boys' work, and should not be tolerated.

The teacher who cannot retire his leadership to the rear of the class,
instead of posing at the front, is another serious damper to organized
work with boys in the Sunday school. A leader should have a strong
Christian character, have the quality of commanding the respect of
boys, have the ability to direct boys in doing things, be keen in his
sympathy, have patience and persistence, and be absolutely natural in
his bearing. He encourages freedom of thought on the part of the boys,
believes that a boy has brains enough of his own to think on any point
that may be discussed, is open and above-board in his teaching, has a
strong grip upon the practical truths of life, and tries to lead his
boys out of doubt and difficulty by the path of service.

If dangers such as these be eliminated from boys' work in connection
with the Sunday school, and if the spirit of sincerity and earnestness
pervades the work of the leaders, there should be little difficulty in
raising the boy through the physical, social and mental to the larger
spiritual expression for which the church stands. Every week hundreds of
boys of the adolescent years are lining up for Christian service all
over our land, and if the ideas and directions given these boys are of
the right sort, within one generation there will be no boy problem, for
the boy problem of this generation is not the problem of the boys, but
the problem of the men who are leading boys.

BIBLIOGRAPHY ON DANGER POINTS

The Older Boy Sunday School Superintendent (_American Youth_, October,
1912). (.20).

Robinson.--The Adolescent Boy in the Sunday School (_American Youth_,
April, 1911). Single copies out of print but bound volume for