Social Service in Religious Education by William Norman Hutchins

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University of Chicago, 1914 - 84 Seiten
 

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Seite 64 - It is not to be supposed that the unity of the primary group is one of mere harmony and love. It is always a differentiated and usually a competitive unity, admitting of self-assertion and various appropriative passions; but these passions are socialized by sympathy, and come, or tend to come, under the discipline of a common spirit. The individual will be...
Seite 65 - All the abuses which are the objects of reform . . . are unconsciously amended in the intercourse of friends." * A congenial family life is the immemorial type of moral unity, and source of many of the terms — such as brotherhood, kindness, and the like — which describe it. The members become merged by intimate association into a whole wherein each age and sex participates in its own way. Each lives in imaginative contact with the minds of the others, and finds in them the dwelling-place of his...
Seite 66 - In the midst of the modern city which, at moments, seems to stand only for the triumph of the strongest, the successful exploitation of the weak, the ruthlessness and hidden crime which follow in the wake of the struggle for existence on its lowest terms...
Seite 122 - From his survey of many investigations, G. Stanley Hall concludes that with reference to the choice of ideals during childhood and youth, "Civic virtues certainly rise; material and utilitarian considerations do not seem to rise much, if at all, at adolescence, and in some data decline. Position, fame, honor, and general greatness increase rapidly, but moral qualities rise highest and also fastest just before and near 1 GS Hall, Adolescence, vol. ii, p.
Seite 136 - In some cases the pictures may be sent to be pasted in by the recipients. § 4. PRIMARY DEPARTMENT Ages six to nine; Grades 1-4 Forms of Service 1. Assisting kindergarten teacher in preparation of material (girls). 2. Sunday-school messenger service (boys). 3. Beautifying their room. 4. Boys
Seite 64 - Facial expression, tone of voice, and the like, the sensible nucleus of personal and social ideas, serve as the handle, so to speak, of such ideas, the principal substance of which is drawn from the region of inner imagination and sentiment. The personality of a friend as it lives in my mind and forms there a part of the society in which I live, is simply a group or system of thoughts associated with the symbols that stand for him.
Seite 141 - ... 6. Providing a week in the country for a boy or girl. 7. Making fireless cookers and ice-boxes and screens under the direction of the visiting housekeeper of the United Charities. 8. Making jelly or grape juice as a class for District Nurses' Association. 9. Tearing up bandages for District Nurses
Seite 96 - ... and training for service. — Training for service can best be given by actual service, but by service which awakens the interest and is within the power of the young people. Every relation in life opens up opportunities of Christian service, but these are sometimes not seen and therefore not seized. The characteristic environment of the primary child is the home; of the junior child, the play circle and the school; of the intermediate youth, entering upon a larger world, the church as a parish...
Seite 82 - ... schools in the South. Just before the vacation period, the weekly church calendar contained suggestions to the members of the school of "Things to Do" during the summer vacation of seventy days. These were the suggestions made: THINGS WE CAN Do FOR OTHERS 1. Carry flowers to sick and old people. 2. Send postcards and letters to people who are kept at home. 3. Provide a day's pleasure for a group of children, going with them and playing with them. 4. Read, sing, and tell stories to children, sick...
Seite 144 - ... Providing pleasant Sunday afternoons for young men and women who live in boarding houses. 8. Reading to the sick, aged, and the blind. Object of Service. The Community. The Larger World. Form of Service. 9. Singing at the Old People's Home. 10. Giving entertainments at almshouses and asylums. 11. Auto rides for shut-ins and convalescents. 12. Disposing of work made by inmates of almshouse. 13. Clerical work at district office of United Charities. 14. Accompanying patients to clinics and friends...

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