1909: Atkins, Burton, Faunce, Forbush, Harrower, Pratt, Stewart, Swain, Thwing. 1910: Dewey, Harper, Harris, King, McMurry, Sanders, Sheldon, Spalding, Taylor, Tyler. 1911: Du Bois, Dutton, Eliot, Hammond, Henderson, Pease, Starbuck, Tracy, Votaw. Total, fifty-five. Voted, That the Chairman appoint a committee to nominate new members, to report at the next session. WM. BYRON FORBUSH, On behalf of the Directors of the Association, Ex-President Sanders presented the following resolution of appreciation of the work of the retiring President, Rev. Charles Cuthbert Hall, D. D. It was unanimously adopted. RESOLUTION OF APPRECIATION TO DR. HALL The members of the Religious Education Association in attendance at this Convention desire to place on record an expression of their grateful appreciation of the important service rendered by their retiring President, the Rev. Dr. Charles Cuthbert Hall, during this critical year of the history of the Association. His felicitous presentation of the aims and ideals of the Association on many public occasions; his profound faith in its future; his devotion to its immediate interests; his ability in commending it to those who are leaders in the life and thought of our nation, have given to the movement strength, inspiration, and stability. Graceful and grateful response was made by President Hall. The presiding officer announced the election of Rev. William F. McDowell, Bishop of the Methodist Espiscopal Church, Chicago, Illinois, as President of the Association, and introduced the newly elected First Vice-President, Rev. W. H. P. Faunce, D. D., LL. D., President of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, who responded in behalf of the new President. The subject of the evening, "How can We Quicken in the Individual a Sense of National and Universal Brotherhood," was discussed in two addresses, on "The Sacredness of Citizenship, " by President William J. Tucker, D. D., LL. D., Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, and on "The Mission of Christianity to the World," by President Charles Cuthbert Hall, D. D., Union Theological Seminary, New York City. With a prayer by Dean Frank Knight Sanders, Ph. D., D. D., Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connnecticut the Third Annual Convention of the Religious Education Association was declared to be ended. DEPARTMENTAL SESSIONS The Departmental Sessions of the Convention were held for the most part on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, from 2 to 6 o'clock. The several departments and their places and times of meeting were as follows: Department I, The Council of Religious Education, held sessions, for members only, in the blue room of Tremont Temple, at 9 A. M. on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, and a public session at 10:30 A. M. Tuesday. Department II, Universities and Colleges, held two sessions, at Channing Hall, Unitarian Building, at 4 o'clock on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. Department III, Theological Seminaries, held two sessions, - one at Lorimer Hall, Tremont Temple, the other at Chipman Hall, Tremont Temple, at 2 o'clock on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. Department IV, Churches and Pastors, held two sessions, Wesleyan Hall, the other at Pilgrim Hall, Congregational House, at 2 o'clock on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. one at Department V, Sunday Schools; held two sessions, one at Lorimer Hall, at 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon; the other, a joint session with the Department of Teacher-training, at Lorimer Hall, at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon. one Department VI, Secondary Public Schools, held two sessions, at Boston University Chapel, the other at Chipman Hall, Tremont Temple, at 4 o'clock, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. Department VII, Elementary Public Schools, held two sessions,one in the blue room of Tremont Temple the other at Park Street Church vestry, at 4 o'clock Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. Department VIII, Private Schools, held no sessions. Department IX, Teacher-training, held two sessions, one at the blue room, Tremont Temple, Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the other, a joint session with the Department of Sunday Schools, at Lorimer Hall, Tremont Temple, Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Department X, Christian Associations, held two sessions, at the Y. M. C. A. Building at 4 o'clock on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. Department XI, Young People's Societies, held two sessions, — one at Wesleyan Hall, the other at Pilgrim Hall, Congregational House, at 4 o'clock on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. Department XII, The Home, held two sessions, at Channing Hall, Unitarian Building, at 2 o'clock Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. Department XIII, Libraries, held one session, Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, at the Boston Public Library. Department XIV, The Press, held one session, Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, at the Twentieth Century Club. Department XV, Correspondence Instruction, held two sessions, one at Park Street Church, Wednesday morning at 12 o'clock, the other at Small Hall, Unitarian Building, Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Department XVI, Summer Assemblies, held one session, Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, at Small Hall, Unitarian Building. Department XVII, Religious Art and Music, held two sessions, at Twentieth Century Club, — one on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the other on Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock. MINUTES OF THE DEPARTMENTAL MEETINGS The minutes of the Departmental Meetings are preserved by the recording secretaries of the departments. The new departmental officers elected may be seen in the List of Officers of the Association for the current year, on pp. 483-486, post. The programmes of the Departmental Meetings are indicated by the addresses reported under each Department named in the preceding pages of this volume. AN EXHIBIT OF SUNDAY SCHOOL MATERIAL An exhibition of religious education, relating to instruction in Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Jewish Sunday schools was arranged by Rev. Milton S. Littlefield, Rev. W. W. Smith, M. D., Rev. Richard Morse Hodge, D. D., Committee on Religious Education Exhibit of the Department of Sunday Schools. The exhibit consisted of plans of Sunday school buildings, school furniture, text-books, hymn-books, reference-books for teachers, Sunday school curricula, pictures, print and relief maps, models of Oriental dwellings, furniture, etc., and notebooks, drawings, relief and surface maps, and other work executed by Sunday school pupils. Members of the committee in charge were on hand to explain the exhibits and to give demonstrations in manual methods of instrution. THE BOSTON COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS The local preparations for the Convention and the entertainment of the Convention during its sessions were admirably provided by a Committee of more than seventy representative citizens of Boston. whose names follow: WINSHIP, ALBERT E. LIT. D. Chairman. BOWNE, BORDEN P., PH. D. CAPEN, SAMUEL B., LL.D. PARMENTER, C. W., LIT. D. SMALL, AUGUSTUS D. WILLARD, HORACE M., SC.D. WRIGHT, THEODORE F., PH.D. HULING, RAY GREENE, A.M., Sc.D., Chairman of Finance Committee. HASKELL, EDWARD H., Chairman of Entertainment Committee. ROGERS, DWIGHT L., Chairman of Transportation and Hotel Committee. ADAMS, CHARLES H. BAILEY, ALBERT E. BENTLEY, CHARLES N. BLAKESLEE, ERASTUS, D.D. BOYD, CHARLES E. BRADNER, LESTER, JR. BRAND, CHARLES A. BRIDGMAN, HOWARD A. GOODWIN, HENRY. HALE, HARRIS G. HARTSHORN, W. N. MACDOUGALL, H. C. MERRIAM, EDWARD F. MOORE, EDWARD C., PH. D., D.D. MORSE, HERBERT L. PARKER, FREDERICK C. W. PARKER, HENRY C. PEABODY, HENRY W. SHUMWAY, FRANKLIN P. SWETT, VERNON B. WENTWORTH, OLIVER M. WICKES, FRANK S. C. WILLARD, HORACE MANN, SC.D. THE GENERAL ALLIANCE OF WORKERS WITH BOYS The General Alliance of Workers with Boys held its annual convention in connection with the Religious Education Association. Public sessions were held as follows: Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock in Channing Hall, Unitarian Hall. Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock in Channing Hall, Unitarian Building. WILLIAM C. BITTING, WILLIAM J. PARKER, |