Excerpt from The Intermediate Worker and His Work As education is becoming the dominant interest in society, religious education is coming to its own in the Church. Her Own children are at once her first responsibility and her only hope. She can not lose these and win anything. If she saves these she can save the world. The new life in the modern Sunday-school is the ex pression of this deepening conviction. We are coming to see that no sacrifice is too deep and no expense too great for the winning of our youth to Christ and building them up in Christ. Their responsiveness to skillful training is a moral wonder. With the decline of the feeling of hopeless ness engendered by an over - estimate of heredity, there has come into our work a new confidence based upon the teach ings of science as to the priority of environment. Oppen heim says, The human being, in the first part of his exist ence, is much more unformed than is generally thought. The determining factors are not as parents usually con sider them. He adds that the effects of heredity are not settled facts, but that the qualities of goodness and virtue are purely functional, the result of friction, social inter action, environment. This means that by supplying the right environing influences we may win and hold all the children we desire. 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.