the kindergarten-period it seems to me the plain duty of parents to
encourage the child to attend church, though not necessarily for the
entire service; for if the child does not establish a church-going
_habit_ during these plastic years, the probability is that he will
never form it. This partially explains why there is such a leakage
between the Bible-school and the church. When the child gets "too old
for Bible-school," not having formed the church-going habit, he is
stranded

"Between two worlds,
One dead, the other powerless to be born."

And the result is he drifts away from the Church.

In the endeavour to remedy this situation in his own Church it has been
the custom of the writer to have all children from seven to twelve years
of age in the Bible-school, which meets on Sunday morning before church,
attend the morning worship for the first fifteen minutes. During this
time they hear the Call to Worship, the Invocation, the Lord's Prayer,
the Children's Sermon, and the Anthem by the choir. At the close of the
anthem the children file out with their teachers as the adult
congregation rises for the Responsive Lesson. In this way the children
are establishing a church-going habit, with the result that they early
begin to feel that something is wrong on Sunday if they have not been to
church.

A word as to the content of the sermons preached. I believe that a
child's religion ought to be largely of the motor type. That is, it
should be concerned with getting religion into the child's hands and
feet. In other words, it should seek to establish in him a habit of