Training The Devotional Life PDF Download

Excerpt from The Training of the Devotional Life Training of the devotional life seeks specifically to establish the conscious relationship of the indi vidual child to God and to develop the attitude of reverence, adoration, and trust toward God and good will, sympathy, and service toward people. It seeks further to develop appreciation for moral and ethical ideals and Stimulates aspiration to Christ likeness in character and conduct. The material available for this training includes prayers, hymns, devotional and Scriptural passages, and ritual forms. The method of training has to do with the se lection of materials adapted to the age of the child or group, the arrangement and direction of the pro gram for the actual service of worship, together with the accompanying interpretation necessary in order to achieve the desired result in the deepening and enrichment of the religious experience of the pupil. These are matters to which consideration is given in this textbook, a unit in the second year of a three years' course, Training for Leadership, and Is Ih tended both for teachers in service and for training classes in the Young People's Department of the Sunday school. It should further serve a wider cir cle of readers and home students, especially among pastors and parents desiring help in their work of ministering to the devotional life of children and young people. The editors. 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.