Excerpt from A Survey of Religious Education in the Local Church With the introduction Of the scientific method into the theory and practice Of religious education the time has arrived for the definite measurement Of results. While religious education was yet in the empirical stage Of its development, churches, supervisors, and teachers might be content with the consciousness that they were doing good, without any very precise definition of what the good was, so long as their efforts were in the right general direction and they could see the more or less tangible results Of their labors. 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.