ADDRESS OF WELCOME

ALBERT E. WINSHIP, LIT. D.

EDITOR THE JOURNAL OF EDUCATION; CHAIRMAN OF THE BOSTON COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS

Mr. President and other Guests,- It is impossible to speak our appreciation of our guests or our pleasure as host in six minutes, nor could any one, least of all the chairman of a committee of seventy do the the occasion justice in limitless time. In order to escape such responsibility, I had Sunday evening and the whole of Monday set apart for a series of suggestions of our welcome. Our largest and most historic church- the Old South furnished appropriate introduction; at Wellesley College, modern Christian scholasticism found expression; at Harvard, the oldest educational institution, the highest scholarship of the day acknowledged the honor of your presence; and in the evening, at Faneuil Hall - Liberty's shrine-we turned loose an array of dignitaries who could not be trusted with a six-minute limitation. It is left for the chairman merely to express an official welcome.

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It is unfortunate for us that you were born in February. We really do not keep open house in this month. Ordinarily, we are not at home." Our weather is not on exhibition, our seaside resorts and mountain houses are closed, you have done your Christmas shopping, and even our bargain-counters have been closed. We recognize, however, the appropriateness of your birthday season, as February's one distinction is her glorious galaxy of birthdays, with such names as Washington and Lincoln, Longfellow and Lowell, St. Valentine and Votaw.

I fully appreciate that it is ours to act, yours to speak; ours to serve, yours to command. We shall be busy doing, that you may have freedom in talking. Our only ambition is to honor the traditions of our fathers as host.

For two centuries, threescore and ten years, Religion and Education have walked hand in hand in Boston. In this we have pride, as being the Jerusalem of the New World; and with no little chagrin did we see this child of the new century born in the cattle mart of the West; but wise men went from the East with their offering of faith, hope, and charity,— and the greatest of these was charity. With unfeigned pride we now see this child placed in the cradle of liberty.

We cannot welcome you, your religion, or your education, you have a more noble welcome from worthier lives; for this is not the city of these

men and women who serve tables, but it is the city of Cotton Mather and Phillips Brooks, of Sam Adams and Charles Sumner, of Horace Mann and Julia Ward Howe. Theirs is the welcome.

It may not be out of place to suggest that we will welcome all the religion that you think Chicago and New York can spare, and that you are welcome to all the education you can extract from our traditions. We know that we are enriched by your coming and will be saddened by your going. We hope you will be comfortable while you stay and that your memories of Boston will be pleasant.

We 've no "Welcome" when you come,

We've no "Farewell" when you go;
For you came not when you came,
And you go not when you go.

A Welcome ne'er we 'll give you,

And Farewell we 'll never say;

In our hearts you 're always with us,
Always will be, every day.

Response on behalf of the Association was made by Clifford W. Barnes, M. A., General Secretary. The President's Annual Address was delivered by President Charles Cuthbert Hall, D. D.

The subject for the first general session, " How can We Bring the Individual into Conscious Relation with God?" was discussed in three addresses, on "The Direct Influence of God upon One's Life," by Rev. William F. McDowell, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Chicago, Illinois; on "The Bible as an Aid to Self-discovery," by President Henry Churchill King, D. D., Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio; and on "The Church as a Factor in Personal Religious Development," by Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, D. D., S. T. D., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Massachusetts. The session was closed with prayer by Rev. John Coleman Adams, D. D., pastor Universalist Church, Hartford, Connecticut.

THE JOINT SESSION OF DEPARTMENTS

Wednesday, 10 A. M. The Convention met in the Park Street Church. Devotional services were conducted by Rev. Samuel A. Eliot, D.D., president American Unitarian Association, Boston, Massachusetts. Rev. William C. Bitting, D. D., pastor Mount Morris Baptist Church, New York City, and William J. Parker, assistant general secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association, Chicago, Illinois, were elected secretaries of the Convention.

President Charles Cuthert Hall, D. D., appointed, with the confirmation of the Convention, the committees:

On Enrollment: Chairman, Mr. Appleton P. Williams.

On Nominations: Chairman, Mr. Loring W. Messer.

On Resolutions: Chairman, President Henry Churchill King.
Rules for the Convention were adopted as follows:

"The principal addresses at the evening sessions shall be limited to twenty minutes each. Speeches in the formal discussion shall be limited to eight minutes each. Addresses in the Joint Session of Departments shall be limited to twelve minutes each. The speaker in each case shall be notified by a stroke of the bell when he enters upon the last minute of his time; and by a double stroke of the bell when the last minute is completed. The time of any speaker shall not be extended.

"Addresses by members from the floor, in the Joint Session of Departments, shall be limited to three minutes each. Members desiring to participate in the discussion shall send their cards by the ushers to the presiding officer, who will call on as many as the time of the session permits."

The President announced the serious illness of President William R. Harper, LL. D., of the University of Chicago, Illinois; Professor George W. Pease, Hartford School of Religious Pedagogy, Hartford, Connecticut; and Rt. Rev. John L. Spalding, Bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Peoria, who had been expected to participate in the Convention. After united prayer in their behalf, led by Professor George A. Coe, Ph. D., Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, it was voted that, with President Hall, Rev. Endicott Peabody, D. D., head master Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts; Chancellor James H. Kirkland, Ph. D., LL. D., Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee; and President William De Witt Hyde, D. D., LL. D., Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, be appointed a committee to express to these sufferers the sympathies of the Convention."

The topic for the Joint Session of the Departments, "The Place of Formal Instruction in Religious and Moral Instruction," was discussed in addresses on" The Home," by President G. Stanley Hall, Ph. D., LL.D., Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts; "The Sunday School," by Rev. Everett D. Burr, D. D., pastor First Baptist Church, Newton Center, Massachusetts; "The Young Men's Christian Association," by Professor George Albert Coe, Ph. D., Northwestern Unversity, Chicago, Illinois; "The Public School," by Mr. George H. Martin, secretary of the Board of Education, Boston, Massachusetts; "The Preparatory School," by Rev. Endicott Peabody, D. D., head master Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts; and " The College," by Presi

dent George Harris, D. D., LL. D., Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts. The joint session then gave place to a special session of the Department of Correspondence Instruction, at which an address was made by President Frank W. Gunsaulus, D. D., Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, on "The Place and Possibilities of Correspondence Instruction in Religious Education." The session was closed with prayer by Rev. E. F. Merriam, D. D., editor The Watchman, Boston, Massachusetts.

THE SECOND GENERAL SESSION OF THE CONVENTION Wednesday evening, 7:30 o'clock, the Convention assembled in Converse Hall, Tremont Temple. Devotional services were conducted by Professor Herbert L. Willett, Ph. D., the University of Chicago, Illinois. The subject for the evening, "How can We Develop in the Individual a Social Conscience ?" was discussed in three addresses, on "Literature as an Expression of Social Ideals," by Professor Arthur S. Hoyt, D. D., Auburn Theological Seminary, Auburn, New York; on "Science as a Teacher of Morality," by Professor John M. Coulter, Ph. D., the University of Chicago, Illinois; and on "The Ethical Education of Public Opinion," by President Henry S. Pritchett, Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts. The general subject was further discussed by Professor Henry S. Nash, D. D., Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Professor William E. B. Du Bois, Ph. D., Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia; and Rev. Samuel M. Crothers, D. D., minister of the First Parish, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

A pleasant experience was the presence on the platform of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, who was introduced to the audience by President Hall. The entire audience rose to greet the distinquished guest. After a few words of encouragement to the Association, Mrs. Howe, by request, repeated her "Battle Hymn of the Republic."

The session closed with prayer by Rev. Charles F. Rice, D. D., pastor Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal Church, Springfield, Massachusetts. ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION

The Association met for its annual business session in the Park Street Church, Thursday morning, 10 o'clock, with President Charles Cuthbert Hall, D. D., in the chair. Devotional services were conducted by Rev. Albert E. Dunning, D. D., editor The Congregationalist, Boston, Massachusetts.

The Directors having recommended certain amendments to the

Constitution, the Chair appointed as a committee to formulate such amendments, Messrs. Sanders, Coe, and Bitting.

The minutes of the Second Convention of the Association, Philadelphia, March 2-4, 1904, were presented by the Recording Secretary of the Association, Professor George A. Coe, Ph. D., and approved as printed in the Proceedings of that Convention.

Clifford W. Barnes, Ph. D., General Secretary, presented the following Annual Report, which was accepted and ordered placed on file:

THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE GENERAL SECRETARY

In giving the report of the General Secretary for the year which has just come to a close, I must beg your indulgence if more is said concerning the work which is planned than of that which has been accomplished. To summarize briefly, the Association may be said during the past twelve months, to have:

First. Completed its organization. A movement so wide in its scope and so varied in its activities could not be properly officered, much less gain momentum, short of the two years which have marked the life of this Association. And when one carefully scans the 250 names which make up its official list, and realizes the particular fitness of each man for his special task, he can but feel that this in itself is a remarkable achievement.

Second. Developed some of its departments. We would mention especially those of the Home, Religious Art, and Music, Young Men's Christian Association and Libraries. These departments have kept in touch with the Association headquarters, their officers have met in consultation, they have made investigations along their respective lines, and expect to publish very soon some valuable monographs.

Third. Established guilds. These local organizations of the Religious Education Association have now been formed in six places, and include a total membership of over four hundred and sixty. Active members of a guild are members in full standing of the Religious Education Association, joining in the regular manner, but paying their enrollment fee of one dollar directly to the guild. Nothing in the past year's experience has been more encouraging than the zeal with which Christian workers of all denominations have united in these localorganizations, undertaking serious study in Old and New Testament Literature, in Teacher-training, in Religious Art and Music, in the betterment of home instruction, in establishing traveling libraries, and in a general agitation for better and more pervasive religious and moral education.

Turning now to the future, I take pleasure in presenting for your approval the following policy, which has just been adopted by the Board of Directors for the coming year.

1. Leasing new and enlarged quarters for the Executive Office. With the growth in Association membership, and the consequent increase in detail work, the space occupied at 153 La Salle Street is proving too