small, and larger and better rooms are needed. The Executive Office is therefore to be moved on the 1st of May to the new First National Bank Building, perhaps the handsomest structure of its kind in the world, and certainly for our work the best located in Chicago.

2. Installing a complete and permanent exhibit, in connection with the Executive Office, of all literature, charts, Sunday school lesson helps, and other material which bear directly upon moral and religious education. It is planned to have this matter so skillfully arranged and so well selected that the officer in charge shall be able to answer any query concerning the best thing produced (or the finest work done) in any of the various lines in which the Association is interested. As rapidly as new material comes to hand, the purpose is to bring it to the attention of the respective departments to which it properly belongs, and obtain the judgment of the department as to its merit.

3. Carry on the editorial work of the Association at the Executive Office, and make the Official Bulletin the voice of the Association and of its various departments in commending whatever movement,method, or teaching seems worthy of publicity and support. The tools will be at hand in the material constantly received, in the wise and careful judgments rendered by the departments, and possibly in an editorial staff of able critics representing several denominations and recognized for their standing and fairness. It is planned to issue at least six numbers of the Bulletin each year, to have original productions from some of the departments in each number, and, with the critical reviews presented, to thus furnish our members with a magazine of unique character and great value.

4. Choose from among the departments two or three whose work is of most immediate importance, assist them in preparing a practical scheme of operation, and then, standing behind with the full strength of the Association, endeavor to achieve some definite results.

5. Hold twenty conferences under the auspices of the Religious Education Association in as many large centers, covering the middle section of our country, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. These conferences need not occupy more than an afternoon and evening, but in that time two great interdenominational meetings can be held, five or six strong addresses can be given, and a community sentiment in favor of moral and religious education can be thoroughly aroused. It is planned to conclude these conferences with the organization of a guild, which shall be the local representative of the Religious Education Association, and, in addition to its other work, shall arrange each year for a general gathering of the kind described.

6. Prosecute a vigorous canvass for new members. Through these conferences and the interest which they are expected to kindle, through the Official Bulletin and the influence which it ought to exert through the quickened activity of every department, and last, but not least, through the actual accomplishment of some work that will strongly appeal to the people, through all these agencies and through the loyal endeavor of each of you, we hope to speedily raise the membership of this Association from two thousand to five thousand. And this increase

in members is most desirable, not merely nor chiefly because it will help the Association financially, but because it will magnify, by each new member, the Association's opportunity for good, and will vastly strengthen its authority when it speaks for reform.

7. And finally, obtain subscriptions to the amount of $20,000, with which to carry on this aggressive campaign. The membership dues are so small, and the cost of our literature alone is so great, that it is impossible to make this work pay for itself. We are well aware of the fact that colleges and universities, unless supported by the state, require for their maintenance large endowments and generous subscriptions.

In a sense, this Association is an educational institution, drawing its students from forty-eight states and territories, six British provinces, and nine foreign countries, numbering in its faculty two hundred and fifty of the leading educators of America, claiming alliance with thirty-nine of the leading churches and denominations of the world, and exerting an influence for the moral and religious betterment of humanity which only God in his wisdom can measure. Never did greatness of opportunity and largeness of public service make a stronger demand for generous support, and we hope the day is not far distant when some wise and liberal citizen shall place this great movement on the firm foundation which a strong endowment provides.

Professor C. W. Votaw, Ph. D., Editorial Secretary, presented the following Annual Report, which was accepted and ordered placed on file:

THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE EDITORIAL SECRETARY

The work of the Editorial Secretary during the past year, the second year in the history of the Association, has nearly doubled in comparison with that of the first year. During the first year 560 pages of material were edited and published by the Editorial Secretary. During this second year, which has just closed, the amount was 1,010 pages of literature. It was to be expected that such an increase of the publication work of the Association should take place, and the amount would have been trebled rather than doubled had the resources of the Association been as large as we could have wished, and had we not had to undergo a change of General Secretaries. The specific publications of the Association may be enumerated.

I. The first publication of the fiscal year was the Official Bulletin No. 3, a forty-eight-page pamphlet, issued May 1, 1904. Twenty thousand copies of this Bulletin were printed, sent to members, and otherwise carefully distributed during the year.

2. The second publication was the volume of Proceedings of the Philadelphia Convention, issued September 10, 1904. The edition of the Proceedings this year was 3,000 copies, and the pages were preserved in electrotype for use in a second edition when it is called for. The cost of printing the volume was $2,423.13.

3. The policy outlined in the report of the Editorial Secretary a year ago to issue in separate pamphlet form the addresses given in a particular department, was followed this year in the department of Religious Art and Music, and of Christian Associations. Five hundred copies of each set of papers were provided for the special use of the department, and at the expense of the executive committees of these departments. The papers of other departments would have been similarly issued in separate form had it been possible to arrange for the necessary expense.

4.

Official Bulletin No. 4, a pamphlet of twenty pages, was issued September 1, 1904, 2,500 copies being printed.

5. A four-page circular, descriptive of the contents of the first and second annual volumes of Proceedings.

6. A general circular, of eight pages containing the simplest facts concerning the Association, for wide use in making known the history and ideas of our movement. Twenty thousand copies of this eight-page circular have been printed.

7. The list of officers and members contained in the closing ninety pages of the volume of Proceedings was separately printed in pamphlet form for the general use of the Executive Office. One thousand copies of this reprint have been used.

8. Official Bulletin No. 5, a pamphlet of 40 pages, was issued January 15, 1905.

9. The preliminary programme of the Boston Convention, a thirty-two-page pamphlet.

IO. A circular of twelve pages has just been prepared for use at this Convention, and, subsequently, with reference to the Local Guilds. II. The final programme for this Convention, a pamphlet of thirty-two pages, with cover. An edition of ten thousand copies was prepared.

This brief statement of the publications of the Association during the past year will give some indication as to the editorial work that has actually been done at headquarters. Summing it all up, 89,000 pieces of printed matter have been used in the work of the Association during the year. And the actual number of pages of this printed material for the year is 3,264,000, every page of which has been put judiciously into circulation where its influence has certainly been felt.

FINANCIAL REPORT

For the Eleven Months, March 1, 1904, to January 31, 1905
(The previous fiscal year of the Association ended February 29, 1904.)

The membership of the Association, as reported last year, was 1,647, including 33 institutional; the membership is now 1,980, including 84 institutional memberships, showing an increase during the year of 333.

The Committee on Enrollment presented the following report, which was accepted and ordered placed on file.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON ENROLLMENT

Maine, 20; New Hampshire, 22; Vermont, 7; Massachusetts, 444; Rhode Island, 9; Connecticut, 52; New York state, 49; Pennsylvania, 13; New Jersey, 6; Illinois, 14; Ohio, 10; Iowa, 8; Virginia, 2; Kentucky, 1; Tennessee, 5; Alabama, 1; District of Columbia, 2; Minnesota, 2; North Dakota, 1; South Dakota, 1; Washington, 1; Mississippi, 1; California, 2; Wisconsin, 1; Michigan, 6; Northwest Territory, 1; Montreal, 1; New Brunswick, 3; Nova Scotia, 1; Prince Edward Island, 1; Ontario, 3; England, 1; Finland, 1; Bulgaria, 1; Japan, 1; India, 1

....695

The Committee on Nominations presented a report nominating officers and directors as follows. (See the List of Officers, pp. 000000.)

The Secretary of the Convention was instructed to cast the ballot of the members of the Association for the President and Vice-Presidents nominated in the report, and they were declared unanimously elected.

The Secretary of the Convention was instructed to cast the ballot of the members of the Association for the Directors nominated in the report, and they were declared unanimously elected.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION

The Committee on Amendments to the Constitution presented its report. The amendments proposed were unanimously adopted, as follows:

Amend Article III, section 3, by substituting for the present section the following:

"SEC. 3. In each department except the Council of Religious Education the voting membership shall consist of such members of the Association as express in writing their desire to be affiliated with the department and are accepted by the Executive Committee thereof." Amend Article III, section 4, paragraph 2, second sentence, by substituting for said sentence the following:

"The absence of a member from two consecutive annual meetings of the Council may be regarded as equivalent to resignation of membership, and a new member may be elected for the unexpired term." Substitute for Article IV the following:

"SECTION 1.

There shall be three classes of members: Active (individual and institutional), Sustaining, and Corresponding. "SEC. 2. Active members shall be (1) teachers, pastors, and any persons otherwise engaged or interested in the work of religious or moral education as represented by the seventeen departments named in Art. III; (2) institutions and organizations thus engaged.

66 SEC. 3. The Corresponding Members shall be persons not