LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1920, Page 94

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By Proressor E. H. Encuteazour,

Upon the initiative and under the auspices of ihe
appointed by President Pfotenhauer for English Religio
logical Literature, Professor Engelbrecht of our No.
River Forest bas written a book which, we think, fills
our literature, and really fills that gap. The need for ¢
maintaining young people’s societies is.keenly felt in.
our churches, but frequently such societies are not for
formed, languish and succumb because there is no guid
erence material available to guide the inexperienced to do
be done, and to do it as it should be done.

A careful mother will not permit her infant child
a pair of scissors; she will prevent harm by sheathing
ends in an empty spool or, better still, by substituting at
not dangerous. Similarly a judicious congregation, recogn
people’s perfectly natural instinct for sociability, will not
parental solicitude to inhibitions, but will sheathe the dang
of its young people or provide innocuous substitutes. And
Engelbrecht’s book is to be helpful in this direction by telliga
organize the societies, how to keep them true to their pro
and out of unwholesome tendencies, how to keep them in
yes—amused. And right in this connection we anticipate g
that some one may make when comparing the group title o:
(Concordia Series of Modern Literature, Theological and.
with the many pages in this book that list and explain soc:
The Committee in charge of this series considered this
courage of its convictions in planning the book just as it
games and all. If our young people are the church of
and they certainly are,—then we must properly take ¢
or they are likely to improperly take care of themselves,

The book is subdivided into Educational Features, 4
Social Activities, and Organization, in which chapter are
most important rules of order, as well as a model consti
by-laws. Its 122 pages, 54474, with full cloth binding
erate price of 75 cents, postpaid, render it an almost i
volume in the library of every: pastor, parochial school
all officers of young people’s societies. The Walther
in particular will welcome this manual, as it anticipate
officers have been planning, and as it is written by their p
national field secretary, who was secured by us as author’
cause of his and his colleagues’ experience in the Wal
work,

CONCORDIA PUBLISHING &
St. Louts, Mo.