Training Boys for Church

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 25, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 12.

Training Boys for Church

A WRITER in the Homiletic Review accounts for the comparative irreligiousness of the masculine sex by the neglect of the training of boys in childhood. Parents consider it necessary to protect the girls from evil influence; but the same care is not exercised over the boys. Many boys, the writer thinks, might as well have no fathers at all for all the attention they give to their moral training. And again, “while there are many parents who make some attempt to guard and train their boys, their efforts are too feeble and fickle to accomplish much good.” The result is that boys show an aversion to the Sunday school and then to the church. The conclusion is that if we would have more men at church we must begin early with the boys.