Humanity is facing a decisive turn in its destinies. This also applies to the field of religious education. Until now, in the first years of childhood, it was carried out with exceptional reliability, for the most part, on the basis of the clairvoyance of the mother’s heart. This sacred world must be protected in every possible way. However, where its strength in the face of modernity turns out to be insufficient, it will have to be supplemented, and often even replaced, by more conscious methods. This little book is designed to give appropriate impulses. Based on a penetrating understanding of the spiritual prototype of the human being, elementary religious education can become more specific and more effective. (From the preface to the first edition, 1939).

What Martha Hymeran wrote exactly three decades ago about the religious education of a small child has not only remained relevant to our time, but rather necessity fills the gap that threatens to expand further due to the intellectualization of the human worldview. (From the preface to the third edition, 1970).

“Since the first rule for one who wants to give something is that he himself must have something to give, then only he can teach religion who has it."