This book is a choice contribution to that literature. It comes from a man who has devoted his life to the boys and girls, and who is probably the highest authority in our country in this Department. The largest contribution he is making to the advancement of the whole Sunday school work is in showing the fascination, as well as the possibilities, of the Secondary Division. We are sure this little book will bring rich returns to the Sunday schools, because of the large number who will be influenced, through reading its pages, to devote their lives to the bright boys and fair girls in whom is the hope, not only of the Church, but of the World. =Marion Lawrance.= Chicago, June 1, 1913. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE Foreword 13 I The Home and the Boy 23 II The Public School and the Boy 32 III The Church and the Boy 37 IV The Sunday School or Church School 41 V The Boy and the Sunday School 48 VI Fundamental Principles in Sunday School Work with Boys 57 VII Method and Organization 62 VIII The Organized Sunday School Bible Class 74 IX Bible Study for Boys 93 X Through-the-Week Activities for Boys' Organized Classes 104 XI The Boys' Department in the Sunday School 120 XII Inter-Sunday School Effort for Boys 135 XIII The Older Boys' Conference or Congress 138 XIV The Secondary Division or Teen Age Boys' Crusade 158 XV Sex Education for Boys and the Sunday School 176 XVI The Teen Boy and Missions 193 XVII Temperance and the Teen Age 202 XVIII Building up the Boy's Spiritual Life 208 XIX The Teen Age Teacher 215 XX Danger Points 265 XXI The Rural Sunday School 268 XXII The Relation of the Sunday School to Community Organizations 277 FOREWORD