resident in America who may be elected to such membership by the Board of Directors. The number of Corresponding Members shall at no time exceed fifty.

"SEC. 4. The fees of membership shall be as follows: Active Members shall pay an annual fee of Three Dollars; Sustaining Members, an annual fee of Ten Dollars; Corresponding Members shall pay no fees. All fees shall be payable on or before the holding of the Annual Convention. Members who have paid into the Association the amount of One Hundred Dollars at one time shall be designated Life Members.

"SEC. 5. Members may withdraw from membership by giving written notice to the Secretary before January 1. Resumption of membership will be possible on payment of the annual fee for the current year.

"SEC. 6. All members of the Association whose fees are paid shall receive the volume of " Proceedings" of the Annual Convention. "SEC. 7. All members of the Association shall be elected by the Board of Directors.

"SEC. 8. Only those members whose fees are paid shall have the right to vote and to hold office in the Association and its departments." Amend Article V, section 1, by striking out the words," Financial Secretary."

RESOLUTIONS OF THE CONVENTION

The Committee on resolutions presented its report, which was adopted.

The Religious Education Association, deeply appreciating the cordial welcome it has received in the city of Boston, and the thorough and generous provision that has been made for the conduct of its business and the comfort of its members, desires to express its hearty thanks to all who have contributed to this cause.

I.

To the Committee of Arrangements, especially to its chairman, Dr. Albert E. Winship, and its secretary, Rev. Frederick H. Means, for the careful planning and thorough work which has been so largely responsible for the success of the Convention.

2. To all those generous donors who have contributed to the expenses of the Convention.

3. To the prominent citizens who tendered to the Association the delightful reception at Faneuil Hall, and to the special Entertainment Committee, through whom the reception was arranged.

4. To the Officers of the Old South Church for the use of their building for the service of Sunday evening, February 12th; to the choir of that church for their inspiring part in the worship; and to the First Baptist Church and its pastor for their co-operation in the service. 5. To Wellesley College and Harvard University for their gracious and beautiful hospitality.

6. To the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company for the courteous invitation to visit their armory.

7. To those who have put at our disposal the halls in which the business of the Convention has been so conveniently transacted, especially to the Twentieth Century Club, Boston University, the American Unitarian Association, the Young Men's Christian Association, and the Boston Public Library, the use of whose rooms was freely given.

8. To the Press for full and accurate reports of the proceedings of the Convention, made possible by the hearty co-operation of all the speakers, together with the effective work of the Press Agent.

9. To the Committee in charge of the Sunday School Exhibit, for placing before us, at the cost of much labor and expense on their part, a collection so unique and helpful.

IO. To the Officers of the English High School Cadet Corps for their assistance as ushers at our general sessions, a service freely rendered and admirably performed.

11. We thank all the men and women who have helped in any way to make this Convention a success, and have thereby declared their faith in the ideals and purpose of this Association.

The Aims of the Association

12. Impressed with a deep conviction of the need of a general revival of religious and moral education, and guided by the experience of the last three years, the Religious Education Association offers the following statement of its purpose:

The threefold purpose of the Religious Education Association is: To inspire the educational forces of our country with the religious ideal;

To inspire the religious forces of our country with the educational ideal; and

To keep before the public mind the ideal of RELIGIOUS EDUCATION, and the sense of its need and value.

In detail, its purpose is:

1. To bring together in one comprehensive organization the leaders and workers of all ecclesiastical, evangelical, educational, cultural, and social organizations who wish for fellowship, for mutual interchange of thought, information and experience, and for co-operation in achieving the highest ideal of personality and citizenship.

2. By means of this organization of leaders, to promote the interrelation of all existing agencies of religious and moral education, for mutual knowledge and sympathy, for economy of effort, for friendly co-operation, and for united strength.

3. To survey the whole field of religious and moral education, promoting a study of conditions, reporting the organized and individual forces at work within it, fostering thought, discussion, and experiment, determining the principles and the methods of progress.

4. To reach and to disseminate correct thinking on the relation of religion and morality to education.

5. To make religion a pervasive power for personal and social goodness.

6. To maintain the high ideal of education, in which character and service are the goal.

7. To show that religious education, taken comprehensively, includes evangelism as a vital factor.

8. To apply to religious and moral education the best educational principles and modes of practice derived from modern psychology and pedagogy, and thereby to put the religious forces of the country in sympathetic touch with the matured results of scholarly research in all lines.

9. To promote the study and interpretation of the Bible, and to encourage all methods by which its truth may be learned and made effective for the development of religious and ethical life.

IO. To promote worship and social service as essential to the highest culture, and to this end to emphasize the educational function of the church.

II.

To discover the means by which the Sunday school may be made more efficient in the religious culture of the young.

12. To assist those who are in the process of education to coordinate their intellectual development with the maintenance and deepening of a religious experience, and to enlist the interest and support of the intellectual leaders of the nation on the side of the moral and religious life.

13. To accomplish this work through

(1) The Annual Convention, for the specific discussion of the problems of religious and moral education and for conference by workers as to methods.

(2) The annual volume of Proceedings, putting into permanent form the addresses of the Convention and containing general information about the Association.

(3) The Council, for the purpose of reaching and disseminating correct thinking on all general subjects relating to religious and moral education.

(4) The Departments, whose executive committees and co-operating members shall carry forward the ideas and the plans of the Association in their several fields.

(5) The Executive Office, to serve as a clearing-house of information, connecting with officers and members, and advancing the work through the various channels provided.

(6) Conferences on Religious and Moral Education, to be held in states, districts, and cities, for discussion, stimulus, and spread of ideas and methods.

(7) Guilds organized in communities, to unite ministers, Sunday school workers, public school teachers, Endeavorers, Y. M. C. A. workers, and all persons interested in religion and morality, for mutual fellowship, study, and co-operation in educational progress.

(8) Literature of the Association, to be occasionally published in the form of official bulletins, proceedings of district or departmental conferences reports of investigations, monographs on special subjects, departmental handbooks, etc,

Mr. L. Wilbur Messer made a statement on behalf of the Executive Committee concerning the finances of the Association, in which he announced that the debt accumulated during the two years of existence, amounting to $6,000, had been provided for by guaranteed subscriptions, and that the sum of $20,000, apart from membership fees, was needed for the enlarged work of the Association.

THE ANNUAL SURVEY OF PROGRESS

Following the business session of the Association, " The Annual Survey of Progress in Religious and Moral Education" was presented by President W. H. P. Faunce, D.D., LL.D., President Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, the newly elected First VicePresident of the Association.

The session of the Association was closed with prayer by Rev. Rivington D. Lord, D. D., President General Conference Free Baptists, Brooklyn, New York.

THIRD GENERAL SESSION OF THE CONVENTION

The third general session of the Convention was held in Converse Hall, Tremont Temple Thursday evening, 7.30 o'clock. The First Vice-President of the Association, Professor Francis G. Peabody, D. D., Harvard University, presided. Devotional services were conducted by Rev. William P. Merrill, D. D., pastor Sixth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, Illinois.

The resolutions of the Convention concerning the " Aims of the Religious Education Association" were read by Rev. Frank K. Sanders, Ph.D., D.D., Ex-President of the Association.

On behalf of the Council of the Association, Ex-President Sanders made a statement of the plans of the Council for the current year.

DIGEST OF MINUTES OF THE COUNCIL OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

February 14-16, 1905

Voted, That the Chairman of the Council appoint a committee to select a commission to prepare a book of religious selections for use in public and private schools; that the Chairman of the Council be a member of this committee; and that the commission report in writing to the members of the Council before the next meeting. This committee, as chosen by the Chairman, consisted of Dean Sanders, Dr. Coe, Dr. Votaw, President Swain, President C. C. Hall, and Professor Pace,

Voted, That the Recording Secretary be requested to communicate to the Executive Board of the Association the judgment of the Council that a manual briefly setting forth the field of religious education, the agencies at work, their co-ordination, and what it is desirable to achieve, should be prepared.

Voted, That the committee to choose the commission to prepare the book of religious selections be asked to select an editorial board to prepare a selected bibliography of religious education.

Voted, That the same committee select a commission to study the elements of an adequate religious education.

Voted, That the same committee select a commission to study religious statistics.

Voted, That the Executive Committee of the Council be empowered to call special meetings of the Council.

Voted, That the report of the Nominating Committee be adopted, and that the Recording Secretary be authorized to cast lots for the expiration of the terms of all unassigned members.

This report was as follows:

For Chairman, Dean Frank K. Sanders, Ph. D., D. D.

For Recording Secretary, Rev. William Byron Forbush, Ph. D. For additional members of the Executive Committee (the Chairman, Recording Secretary, and Executive Secretary, Dr. Coe, being exofficio members), Walter L. Hervey, Ph. D.; President L. L. Doggett, Ph. D.; President H. C. King, D. D.

For members of the Council:

Re-elected: Patterson Du Bois; Principal Samuel T. Dutton; J. D. Hammond, D. D.; Professor Charles R. Henderson, D. D.; Professor George W. Pease; Professor E. D. Starbuck, Ph. D.; Professor Frederick Tracy, Ph. D.

New Members: Rev. James Atkins, D. D.; Professor Borden P. Bowne, LL. D.; President Samuel Eliot, D. D.; Professor H. H. Horne, Ph. D.; Very Rev. Thomas J. Shahan, D. D.; Professor C. W. Votaw, Ph. D.

The lot resulted as follows:

Expiration in 1906; Bowne, Brumbaugh, Butler, Coe, Dawson Hervey, St. John, Tillett, Wells.

1907: Baldwin, Doggett, Gulick, Horne, Mathews, McDowell, Miller, Pace, Peloubet.

1908: Blakeslee, E. E. Brown, M. C. Brown, Haley, C. C. Hall, G. S. Hall, Mead, See, Shahan.