Excerpt from The Biblical World, Vol. 21: January-June, 1903 From its very success modern Bible study is exposed to cer tain evils. There is danger of the triumph of the mercantile sma me spirit in the production and sale of Sunday-school sundayschool helps; there IS danger that, because of the great suppiaivr demand for teachers, untrained and inexperienced 5 re? Persons may take charge of the young during their most formative stage; there is danger lest the pastor Should believe that the Sunday school relieves him from giving biblical instruction to his people. Yet it is not to any of these dangers that we would call attention at this time, but rather to one which seems more fundamental and serious than any one of them all - the decline of family religion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.