15. Show the danger of spasmodic moral efforts. 16. Where shall we look for the basis of our moral teaching? 17. What do we owe to the poets in this regard? 18. How did the mediæval Church provide moral object lessons? 19. Illustrate our failure in this respect. 20. Why should children have the inspiration of high ideals? 21. Show the value of biography in this connection. 22. Name any virtues with which the poets inspire us. 23. Make a suggestion with regard to the culling of mottoes. 24. How may parents and teachers help children to the habit of sweet thoughts? 25. Enumerate and discuss some of the virtues which children should be trained to develop. 26. Distinguish between ‘being good’ and loving God. CHAPTER XIII SOME UNCONSIDERED ASPECTS OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION 1. Show how the principle of authority bears on religious teaching. 2. In what ideas do the children of our day need especially to be brought up? 3. How do certain questions ‘in the air’ militate against the sense of authority? 4. In what respects does authority work like a good and just national government? 5. Discuss authority in connection with punishment. 6. Discuss each of the various themes suggested in connection with the subject of authority in the religious life. 7. Show that lines of habit are as important for the religious as for the physical, moral, and intellectual life. 8. How would you endeavour to keep a child in the habit of the thought of God? 9. Discuss the question of reverent attitudes. 10. How would you use ‘because of the angels’ in this connection? 11. Show the importance of regularity in time and place in children’s prayers. 12. Why should not their evening prayers be left till bedtime? 13. What is to be said of little text-books? 14. Show the danger of losing the narrative teaching of the Scriptures. 15. Why should not children be encouraged in long readings or long prayers? 16. How should the habit of praise be fostered? 17. Show the value of the habit of Sunday-keeping, and describe a child’s Sunday. 18. Write your reflections on each of the themes suggested in connection with the habits of the religious life. 19. Show the importance of selecting the inspiring ideas we propose to give children in the things of the Divine life. 20. What other point demands our care? 21. What vitalising idea is of first importance in the teaching of children? 22. How should children be taught that the essence of Christianity is devotion to a Person? 23. Why is it necessary to teach children that there is a Saviour of the world? 24. What teaching would you give them about the work of the Holy Spirit? CHAPTER XIV A MASTER-THOUGHT 1. What is the motto of the Parents’ Union? 2. Show that this motto is a master-thought. 3. Why is ‘education is an atmosphere’ the clause of the motto that pleases us most? 4. What is the result if this _part_ be taken for the _whole_?