Education in Religion and Morals (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Education in Religion and Morals The present place of religious and moral education in our civilisation is paradoxical. Everybody knows that the moral health of society and the progress of religion depend largely, if not chiefly, upon the training of the young in matters that pertain to character, yet no other part of education receives so little specific attention. The growth of popular government has increased the importance of high character in the people, yet no substitute has been found, one has scarcely been sought, for the dogmatic religious instruction that has been properly excluded from the people's schools. At a time when the massing of the people in cities is exposing children as never before to the forces of evil, family training in religion and morals suffers, according to all accounts, a decline. At the bloom period of the Sunday school, complaints arise that the populace is ignorant, perhaps growingly so, of the Bible, and that the rate of accessions to the churches is decreasing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.