Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-03-02
For Religious
Education

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Marcn e.
Educational leaders from all parts OF
the United States and Canada. includ-
ing half a hundred college presidents
and professors and a Q Of emf
nent diyines, are in Philadelphia tor
the second annual convention of the
Religious Educational association. The
convention will last three days, open
ing this evening with a public meet
Ing in the Academy Of Music.
After the address Of welcome and
response and the presidents annual
address by Dean Frank X. Sanders
iof Yale Divinity school, three ad-
dresses on THE Bible in Religious
Experience will be delivered as fol
lows: Its Unique Value and Charac-
ter as an Interpreter OF Life Profess
sor Thomas G. Hall. Union Theolog-
ical Seminary; Its Adequacy In Deal
ing with the Crises and Emergen-
(cies Of Life" ut. Rev. Alexander Mac
kay-Smith, bishop coadjutor Of the
diocese Of Pennsylvania; Its lmpor-
ance as a Factor in Promoting Spir-
ituai Efficiency and Growth" Rev.
DR.. Edward Judson. pastor Memorial
Baptist church, New York City, and
professor Of homiletics in the Untver.
sity Of Chicago.
Tomorrow morning there will be
a Joint meeting Of the seventeen de-
apartments of the association to con-
| slider Religious Education in the
Home The speakers will be: Rev.
DR.. Philip S. Moxom, Springfield,
Mass: Rev. Ira Landrith, general
secretary OF the Religious Education.
al association; Miss Mary +. Hutche.
son, chairman of the committee on ed.
ucation Ohio Congress Of Mothers;
Professor Richard Green Moulton OF
the University OF Chicago: Professor
Caleb Il. winchester of Wesleyan uni
verslty and Professor Herman Il.
Horne Of Dartmouth college.
Tomorrow Afternoon viii be devoted
to departmental sessions. when the
following departments will meet:
universities and colleges, theological
seminaries. churches and pastors,
Sunday schools, secondary public
schools, teacher training, Christian
associations, young peoples societies,
the press, religious art and music.
The second general session will be
held tomorrow evening In the First
Baptist church. the subject being
"The Bible In Education" The sub
topics. with the speakers, Will be as
follows: The QUALITIES vWihiicir Make
the Bible Internationally Valuable
/ Professor John +. McFadyen, Knox
college, Toronto; The Contact OF
Biblical Material with the Expert.
ence Of the Child Miss Josephine L
Baldwin, primary superintendent Of
New Jersey State Sunday School rs
ISOLATION; .The Contact Of Biblical
Material with Adolescent Life Pro
fessor George 4. Dawson, the Hart.
ford School Of Religious Pedagogy;
1.-THE Coordination Of the Bible with
Other Subjects of Study" President
William II. p. Faunce, Brown uniyer'
sity. The subsequent discussion will
be participated In BY President Mary
L. Woolley OF Mount Holyoke col
lege, Rabbi Abram Simon OF Wash.
%ington, Professor Charles 4. Kent Of
Yale university, and Rev. William !.
Mcdowell, Phi. D., secretary OF educa'
tion, Methodist Episcopal church.
Friday will be devoted largely to
the annual business meeting. The
iciosing session Of the convention vii
! be held Friday evening. THE Bible
In Social and Civic Life will be the
general theme, treated as follows:
"Its Recognition Of the Social Needs
and Relationships Of Man." Professor
Francis G.. Peabody. .. p, dean q
the Harvard divinity school; Its so
luton OF the Practical Problems OF
Modern Life. Rev. W. $. Rainsford,
ln n New York City.