The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-05
RELIGIOUS EDUCATORS,
DIR. HAIL SUCCEEDS sPRoFEssoR
 SANDERS AS PRESIDENT.
Addresses Gathering on "Annua, sur vey of Progress in Religious and Moral Education"-six Distinct Im- pressions Made Upon Ills Miad-Tsn- dency In American Life to Uadsr- estimate tho Impor,ancssof Religious Conviction as an Element of Educa- ton In Ctt,zeushfp.
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Philadelphia, March 1.-The Religious Education Association closed it's three days convention tonight with a large public meeting. The subject under dis crssion was the Bible in Social and Civil Lise.'' Before the meeting ad- journed the newly elected president of the association, who succeeds Professor Frank K. Sanders of Yale, Rev. Charles Cuthbert Hall. and who is president of Union Theological seminary, New York, was introduced and made a short ad- dress. Besides to-night's farewell meet ing there were no fewer than fourteen departmental and other sessions during the day.
 In the afternoon a general session was heldeat which the newly elected presi- dent made an address on tn Annual Survey of Progress in Religious and Moral Education Dr. Hall said that six distinct impressions have registered themselves upon his mind iii the process of analyzing and arrangng the body of detail collected as the basis of the an- lnual survey of the field of religious and moral education in this country. They I are:
 | 1.-The vastness Of the field of relig- I lious and moral education in this coun- I try and of the forces operating within l it.
 2-The lack of coordination between the constructive forces in this field-a deficiency somewhat counterbalanced | by the underlying homogeneity of ideal nf I> II. l 3-The presence of certain inimical conditions that must be reckoned with. | 1.-The prevalence of unorganized sen timent in favor of better things. l 1.-The timeliness of the association as a possible agent of an adequate co-ordi- nation of principles and methods, and | 6--The conviction that the association records progress in recording an intelli-
 gent reception of the need of progress. ! Discussing the third impression, Dr.
 Hall said that one of the inimical con-
 ditions he referred to was the appar-
 ent tendency in American life to under
 estimate the importance of religious
 conviction as an element of education
 for citizenship.
 During the afternoon the following
 departments held sessions:
 I Universities and colleges, theological
 seminaries. churches and pastors, Sun
 day schools, secondary public schools,
 elementary public schools, Christian as-
 sociations, young peoples societies, li-
 braries, summer assemblies and relig-
 ious art and music.
 l pr. A. B. Dunning of Boston, editor
 of the Congregationalist, in discussing
 the betterment of the Sunday school,
 said that gulf had been created, and
 needlessly widened between many of
 the educated classes and the average
 Sunday school because it has not adopt
 ed modern public school methods. It
 should be the object of the religious as-
 socitaion, he said, to bridge this gulf
 In the department of libraries, Profes-
 sor J. H. Garfield, librarian of Colum-
 bia university, advocated the abandon
 ment of the Sunday school library, ill | favor of the public library and it's
 branches and reading rooms.
 On the other hand Miss E. L. Foote
 of the New York public library advo-
 cated the desirability of uniting exist