Excerpt from Men Who Dared: Studies in Old Testament Manhood

It is hard for us to think of the leading men of Old Testament times as flesh and blood folks who were very much like ourselves. They were heroes, and heroes are different from ordinary people. But we shall never get the real message of these men's lives until we learn to know them in their likeness to ourselves. Strip them of the unreality that they have to most of us, and we find that their heroism consisted in doing commonplace things in a way out of the ordinary, but a way open to all of us if we will pay the price that they paid.

Young people can come to know the men of Old Testament times in this intimate way if they are simply guided into it a little, and young people are likely to be as surprised as older folks to learn how much those old-time characters had in common with themselves, and how the experiences of Bible times are being lived over again, day by day, in schoolroom and schoolyard and home and on the street.

To bring about this intimate and friendly acquaintance between the leading men of the Old Testament and schoolboys of the present day - boys of from twelve to fifteen years of age - is the purpose of this course. Definite daily home work is furnished for assigning to the boys, simple in character, but intended to stimulate them to think for themselves.

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