Show Childs Child's s Religion Offers Complete Study of Mankind Teaches Religious Sentiment Sentiment Sentiment Senti Senti- ment Through History History History His His- tory of Race By ZINA HICKMAN The Childs Child's Religion is Js as its ito subtitle A Study of the Development Develop Develop- ment mont of the Religious Sentiment suggests a psychological and phil pull study of the religion o 01 of mankind For one learns about the religion of the man through lia having ng followed it from its inception In child in the beginning of the race DISCUSSED THOROUGHLY Pierre Bovet author of tho the book at present professor of education Inthe In Inthe inthe the University of Geneva bases his findings on very secure foundations Religious education i is lifted from the tIme ground of bickering and prejudice prejudice dice and the attempt sincerely made to discover through keen observation observation tion lion what are its essentials Through the successive chapters of The Religious Religious Religious Re Re- The Sentiment Love First Adoration The First Religious Religious Religious Re Re- Crisis God and the Great Family God in the World etc down to the conclusion conclusion Psychology ogy and Theology the author leads logically from his premise that to love and adore Is Innate In man He expounds the theory that It is isa isa isa a need of our nature to identify the supreme cause and the supreme Ideal in which we seek seck the law of life that In brief the religious sentiment sentiment sentiment sen sen- Is the filial sentiment the sentiment the first object of ot this sentiment Is for for- his parents The second change follows follows follows fol fol- fol- fol lows in the painful crisis of the adolescent who through his 1115 studies of science and his own observation must pass through the tho period of doubt the final adjustment of the adult either cither to a settled belief in inI I God Inseparable from an orthodox religion or to a state of doubt forever forever forever for for- ever seeking scientific r reason ason for Cor a primal cause fills lages pages of ot satisfying satisfy satisfy- ing lag reading for tor or the seeking mind VIVIDLY PRESENTED i There are parents the author asserts who with the object t of ol helping God to expand the souls of their children treat them with Ig Ignorant ignorant lg- lg brutality Children are better better bet bet- ter tel prepared than ourselves for profound profound profound pro pro- found spiritual experiences But It Jt is worth while to insist th that t. t above all the educator should not attempt to present as obligatory something In which he does docs not be be- be- be lieve We we frequently meet parents who having ceased to believe certaIn certain tain Lain traditional or Biblical affirmations lions continue to hold that belief In In them is desirable In their wish to secure to their children something something some some- thin thing of which they arc themselves ps deprived they the try very hard to al- al cio 6 o low nothing of their negations or their own skepticism to 10 appear an and to pass on to their children what they lucy themselves them s. s received n their childhood with the same obligatory character with which It wa waa wa given to them The alternative for th I method Is Judiciously presented o 1 K.P. K E. P. P Dutton New York |