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 becoming members of debating societies and athletic clubs.

Through the church, the Red Cross worker strives to enrich the spiritual life of the family. The Home Service worker soon, of course, learns to what denomination the members of the household belong, and then if they have not been active in attendance at services she urges them to renew their connections with the church; she sees that the children are invited to attend the Sunday school, or to join church societies and clubs. Here the ideal of the Red Cross is that of a social worker now connected with a Home Service Section, who wrote to a woman grown careless about attendance at church, "whatever one's religion is one ought to observe it." The woman was a Catholic; the social worker was in the service of a non-sectarian organization and was herself a Protestant. She recognized, as all true Home Service workers do, how important it is that no opportunity for the development of spiritual life be lost.

The ideal of Home Service is, therefore, to open to families ways of physical, mental, and spiritual development. Its desire for the children of these families is that they be enabled to follow the example of a certain Boy who lived two thousand years ago and of whom it is said that He increased "in wisdom, and in stature, and in favor with God and man."

1. Whose will be the greatest benefit from the war?

2. What evidence can you cite to show that war times may bring handicaps to children?