The Minister and the Boy

The Minister and the Boy is a handbook for churchmen engaged in boys' work by Allan Hoben, dated 1912. The preface states the aim of the book as calling the attention of ministers to the important place which boys' work may have in furthering the Kingdom of God. The preface adds that an endeavor is made to quicken the minister's appreciation of boys, to stimulate his study of them, and to suggest a few practical ways in which church work with boys may be conducted.

A passage says that among all the broad and rich human contacts that can put the minister in touch with vital realities there is none so electric, so near to revelation as the boy. The text says that basket-ball takes high rank as an indoor game for boys. The text states that forcefulness under control is the desideratum. In some churches, the text says, the boys' whole department of the Sunday school is the boys' club, which may prove a good method where it can be carried out with proper divisions and specialization as to age.