. 108 to 123. Religious
Education Association, $0.50.

Mrs. B.S. Winchester, "Methods and Materials Available," _Religious
Education_, October, 1911. $0.50.

II. Further Reading

Koons, _The Child's Religious Life_. Eaton & Mains, $1.00.

Hartshorne, _Worship in the Sunday School_. Columbia University,
$1.25.

III. Methods and Materials

A.R. Wells, _Grace before Meat_. U.S.C.E., $0.25.

C.F. Dole, _Choice Verses_. Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts.
Privately printed.

F.A. Hinckley (ed.), _Readings for Sunday School and Home_.
American Unitarian Association, $0.35.

J. Martin, _Prayers for Little Men and Women_. Harper, $1.25.

S. Hart (ed.), _Short Daily Prayers for Families_. Longmans, $0.60.

G.A. Miller, _Some Out-Door Prayers_. Crowell, $0.35.

Oxenden, _Family Prayers_. Longmans, $1.50.

George Skene, _Morning Prayers for Home Worship_. Methodist Book
Concern, $1.50.

W.E. Barton, _Four Weeks of Family Prayer_. Puritan Press, Oak
Park, Ill.

Abbott, _Family Prayers_. Dodd, Mead & Co., $0.50.

_Prayers for Parents and Children._ Young Churchman Co., Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, $0.15.

IV. Topics for Discussion

1. What are the causes for the decay of the custom of family
worship?

2. What influences us most: public opinion, popular custom,
economic pressure?

3. How have the changes affected the religious influence of the
home?

4. What features of the older customs are most worth preserving?

5. Recall any of childhood's prayers which you remember. How many
maintain the custom of bedtime prayers in mature life?

6. What should be the central motive of "grace" at meals?

7. Would there be advantage in occasionally omitting the "grace"?

8. Give reasons for and against "grace."

9. Criticize the proposed plan of evening family prayers.

10. Describe any plans which have been tried.

11. Why is it desirable to maintain family worship?

FOOTNOTES:

[24] For a study of children's worship see H.H. Hartshorne, _Worship in
the Sunday School_; "Report of Commission on Graded Worship," _Religious
Education_, October, 1914.

[25] "Parents who give up such a practice as family prayers mainly
because they know of many other people who have done the same are
just as much the slaves of public op