Excerpt from Things to Make: A Book on Hand-Work and Service for Girls and Boys Recently much attention has been given to hand-work and other forms of activity in religious education, especially in the elementary grades. Its value has been proved as a means of expressing the pupil's interest or of deepening his impressions. Many have realized, however, that hand-work and other forms of activity have their greatest value when expressed on the higher level of service. To do something for and with others involves a higher motive than to do something for one self. The spontaneous impulse of girls and boys to help others offers an opportunity to develop in them an attitude of Chris tian sympathy and fellowship and to establish habits of giving which includes not only giving money but that larger gift, personal service. And so we have come to see that doing things and making things for others contains a natural and a powerful force in developing a missionary, and therefore a broadly Christian, character. Probably no one is better qualified to write on such a sub jcet than the author of this book. Miss Hutton was for many years manual training supervisor of the West Orange, New Jersey, schools. She is now Director of Education in the Hill side Presbyterian Church, Orange, New Jersey. Her public school experience and her practical knowledge of the problems of religious and particularly of missionary education give her a unique fitness for writing on this subject. 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.