A woman once came to me and asked if it were not possible to give her husband something to do in the church. "He evinces but little interest; just give him something to do, and I think he will attend." In support of her belief she recounted how her husband, lacking interest in a lodge to which he belonged, was mad a very regular attendant. "He was elected," she said, "the high and mighty potentate of the eastern door. Now he attends the lodge regularly every Thursday night." Think of it--a sensible man walking up and down in a closet-like room, and challenging all who would enter. All this because he was given something to do. There is much philosophy in this. Young people need direction in the line of that in which they are interested, and in which they particularly are best capable of doing. There should be enough specific work to go around.--Charles Luther Kloss, "Proceedings of the Religious Education Association," 1904.
