Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-02-16
IN CONVENTION.
Religious Education AS
sociation's Busy Session
Many Prominent Speakers
Gather at Meeting in Boston.
q Commission to Investigate Bible
Readings In Public Schools.

Boston. Feb. 15.-With a score Of
i'ieetiliss' including those of the con-
Neiiiloh itself and those of the various
departments scheduled for today. tho
it"hslouS Education Association had
IN" busiest session Of its annual meet
ing in Boston. Chief among the meet
ingS or the forenoon was the Joint ses
sion of al departments. of which there
are Il. The subject for discussion AZ
this meeting Was announced as ..rbe
Place Of Formal instruction in Reli-
gious ard Moral Education" with
speakers President G.. Stanley Hall Of
Clark University. Worcester: Rev. Ey-
err;t ID. Burr Of Newton: Prof. Geo.
Albert Coe of Northwestern Tniyer-
sity, Illinois; Geo. IL. Martin. secre-
taHy OF the Massa chusetts State Board
Of E,duca ton: Rev. Endicott Peabody.
principal of the Groton school. and
President George Harris of Amherst
College. The department Of the coun-
Gil of religious education also had ar
ranged 4 forenoon meeting when the
election of officers took place.
Rev. Samuel A. Eliot. president Of
TIE American Unitarian Association,
conducted the devotional service with
which the joint session of the sessions
was opened at the Park street church.
After the transaction of routine bust
ness including the adoption of rules
for the convention and the election of
committees. the delegates tok up Il dis
cGssion of the subject arranged for tie
meeting.
Rev. Everett d. Burr considered the
question of the place Of formal instruc-
ton in religious and moral education
in the Sunday school.
The place Of formal religious instruc-
ton in the home was outlined by Presi-
lent q. Stanley Hall OF Clark Univer-
sity. The speaker .;aid that children
We're the diplomas" Of the fathers of
the land that the fi1rlity with which
religious instruction was impaired to
the boys and girls in the home deter
mined the degree If honor which at
tacned to rh' diplomas. President
, lark rrophe.Iied that the establish
ment of High schools and early college
years of courses in personal morality
would soon he 4 fact, to supplement
the home instruction.
Til. place "f religious instruction in
Tie Young Mems Christian Association
was indicated by Prof COe.
religious instruction ii the publi>
schools. in the preparatory school and
in the college we're treated respective
" by Mr. Mlr,in. seci etary Of the
board Of educntlon. Boston: by Rev.
EndicDtt Peabody. u. D.. master OF
Groton school and President George
Harris OF Amherst college.
President Harris was the closing
speaker at the Joint departmental ses-
sion.
A special session If The department Of
Instruction was held in
the Park street church at noon.
The speaker was Rev. Frank W. Gun
saulus of Chicago.
Among the departments to hold mee,-
ings early in the afternoon We're those
If the Theological Summaries. church
IS, teachers training, the home, lib
raries. summer assemblies and religi-
Gus art and music. AT Lorimcr hall.
Fremont Temple. Alfred r. Perry.
president of Marietta cole &c, Marietta.
Ohio. spoke before Tho del artment Of
Theological ;ieEnnarieS.
fGOl. I ms. X. HENDERSON Oh lnt | III
versitY OF Chicago. before the home de
sroke on The Part of the Home
in Religious Education"
Before the department of libraries |
Drew Is Han. librarian OF thc MIliccnt |
Library at Fairhaven. Mass. WAS the
principal speaker.
The council OF religious education has |
taken definite action on the question |
brought over from last years convention |
If Bible reading in the public schools |
BY appointing committee to consider the |
matter. The committee is empowered to |
name commission of the representa-
ives of all religious beliefs. who shall pre-
are a volume Of selections from The Holy |
Scriptures appropriate To he read n the
,uhlic schools.
The department Of teachers considered |
he topic The Training of Sunday School |
Teachers" Reports were made by Val iou~
speakers of the Sunday school teachers
raining accomplished by their respective
institutions
Dean Edward II. Knight Of the Hart
ora School OF Religious Pedagogy. Hart
'Ort. CT, WAS one.
President John W. Hansel of the Snc.a-
'ial Institute and Training School, Chca
20. spoke for his school.