Religious Vocations

PURPOSE To give needed information to Christian young people facing life decisions, and to provide parents, teachers, pastors, and others with a handbook of reference is the purpose of this book. SCOPE To set forth the programme of work, the number of workers, the salary, the openings, the joys, the drawbacks, the essential preparation, and the desirable personality in the worker in each of a number of main types of salaried service among ministers, missionaries, and laymen in positions within or closely affiliated with the evangelical Protestant church is its scope. METHOD ''Job analysis,'' based upon a study of original sources, interviews, and returns from representative groups of workers in each occupation, has been used as far as possible through- out the study. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Several hundred individuals have given courteous co-operation and genuine help, sincerely appreciated. Especial thanks are due Dr. David Snedden, of Teachers' College; to Dr. John M. Brewer, of Harvard, whose stimulating teaching of voca- tional guidance inspired the idea; to Mr. E. W. Weaver, for help both in and out of the class room; and to Dr. Daniel A. Poling. I am indebted most of all for constant assistance and encouragement to 1my mother. CONCLUSION This is, apparently, one of the first attempts to gather together in one book, from the point of view of the vocational guidance movement, without the motive of propaganda, the occupational opportunities in religious work. The endeavor has been to make an accurate and unbiased approach, while retaining the full flavor of romance, which never can be analyzed out of the great adventure of full-time Christian service. New York City. FRANK M. LOWE, JR.