LECTURER OF THE ETHICAL SOCIETY OF ST. LOUIS; AUTHOR OF SWAN SONNENSCHEIN AND CO., LTD. NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO. JUN 1 1904 CXS ·SH4 ΤΟ MY FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE S. BURNS WESTON (of philadelPHIA) THROUGH WHOM I WAS LED TO ENTER THIS ETHICAL MOVEMENT AND WITH WHOM I HAVE WORKED AS WITH A BROTHER FOR THESE MANY YEARS THIS VOLUME IS Affectionately Dedicated PREFACE. IN accepting the invitation to publish in the Ethical Library this sketch of a new type of Sunday school, I am only too well aware how crude and unsatisfactory it must appear-from the very fact that it is a sketch, and nothing more. As has been stated elsewhere in this volume, the sample lessons are chosen from two or three thousand pages of manuscript. It may be that some of these series of lessons may find their way into print in complete form later on, if there should be a demand for them. At the present, however, this bare outline must suffice. It is equally plain how meagre my work will appear, in comparison with the schemes for such course of instruction which will be developed by other minds in the course of the next two or three decades. No one can anticipate what magnificent fruits may come in the next generation in this direction, after the ground has been thoroughly broken and the field well worked. Undoubtedly most of what is offered here will be superseded ere many years by something far better and more satisfactory. But a little will be accomplished by means of this outline, if it helps to arouse further interest in the subject, and succeeds in awakening greater attention to the importance of developing Sunday school work along ethical lines. I should be sorry if anything in the title of this volume necessarily implied that the proposed course |