The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1908-02-13

Cecil Hughes, president Of Ripon College.
Ripon, Wis; Prof. George Albert Coe, of
Northwestern University, and the Rev.
W. c. Biting. Of st. Louis. Mo.
The second general session Of the con-
vention was opened at 9 O'Clock yesterday
morning I'm the First Congregational
Church with devotional exercises. led by
Rev. Frederick d. Power. pastor of the
Vermont Avenue Christian Church.
Minutes Of the last convention were
read and officers elected after which a
survey of the work of the association
was made by Henry F. Cope, general
secretary of the r. +. A. Of Chicago. The
annual survey of the progress in moral
and religious education was read by Rev.
George Hodges. dean OF the Episcopal
Theological School. al Cambridge, Mass,
and discussion Of the surveys was in
dulged in by the following: William II.
+. Faunce, president of Brown UniveT-
sity, Frank Knight Sanders, secretary Of
the Congregational Sunday School and
Publishing Company; Samuel a. Eliot,
president of the American Unitarian As
ISOLATION, and Smaller Mathews, dean Of
the Divinity School, University of Chi
cage.
At 2.30 o'clock the delegates assembled
at the First Congregational Church, and
went i'm a body 10 the White House,
where they were received in the East
Room by President Roosevelt.
The President made a brief address, in
which he highly commended the work OF
the association. He said.
Address of the President.
The President said:
REs- TpvocfarpT Cent lemon
It is a very real pleasure to me 10 greet
the members Of this association. I doubt
II there is any lesson more essential To
teach IN an industrial democracy like
ours than the lesson that any failure to
train the average citizen 10 a belief I'm
the things Of the spirit no less than the
things of the body must in the long run
entail misfortune. shortening. possible
disaster upon the nation itself.
1T is emiuently right that We AmerI-
cans should be proud of our material
prosperity II is eminently right that we
should pride ourselves Jpn widely diff
fused and exceedingly practical system o.
education l believe in both. but neither
viii avail if something else is not added
to the nation.
The material prosperity is essential as
"a foundation, but il is only foundation,
and upon It must be built the superstruc-
ture of the higher moral and spiritual
life; for otherwise in itself the material
prosperity will amount 10 but little SO
without education il is necessary that We
should see that the children should be
trained not merely in reading and writing
not merely in the elementary branches of
learning strictly SO defined but trained
industrially. trained adequately 10 meet
the ever increasing demands Of the COM
pick growth of our industriaiism trained
agriculturally, trained i'm handicrafts,
trained to be more efficient workers IN
every field of human activity.
Must He Trained.
But they must be trained in more than
that or the nation viii ultimately go
down. They must be trained i'm the ele-
mentary branches Of righteousness; they
must be trained so that it shall come
naturally 10 them 10 abhor that which is
evil, or we never can see our democracy
take the place which It must and shall
take among the nations OF the earth.
In making an address in greeting any
body like this, I always want my words
taken at their exact face value | do not
believe ever in teaching what cannot be
practieed. / do not want ever to hear
man say he pays no regard to the things
Of the body in life as il is to-day. On
the contrary, [ would tell every young
man that it is his first duty 70 pull his
own weight, to take care of himself, and
take care Of those dependent upon him.
He cannot do anything for others until
he has first made It certain that he will
not be "a burden upon others. ] want to
see "a man able to earn his own lyeli-
hood. / want to see the woman able 10
do her part as housewife and mother But
all my plea is that the man shall not be
content with merely that, that the man
shall realize that after a certain point
has been reached, the increment of his
fortune. the increment of his material
well-being amounts TO but very little COM
pared to the result Of effort spent in other
directions"
Session Closes To-day.
The convention will adjourn this evening
after the close of the fourth general SEES
sion in the First Congregational Church.
The greater part Of the day will be spent
IN meetings of the departments.
In the evening Rev Frank NJ. Bristol
pastor of the Metropolitan Memorial
Methodist Episcopal Church. will read
from the scriptures and lead I'm praver
Resolutions will be adopted. and Lyman
Abbott editor of THE Outlook - will do