The Materials of Religious Education. Partial Contents of the New Volume Ready August 15th. Price, $2.00 net. THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL ADDRESS, William H. P. Faunce, D.D., LL.D. THE ANNUAL SURVEY OF PROGRESS IN MORAL AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION, William Douglas Mackenzie, D.D. WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN NATION? Walter Rauschenbusch, D.D. THE RESPONSIBILITY OF A CHRISTIAN NATION FOR THE Religious EDUCATION OF THE WORLD, Arthur J. Brown, D.D. THE QUICKENING OF THE PUBLIC CONSCIENCE, Jacob Gould Schurman, LL.D. HOW SHALL CHRISTIAN IDEALS BE MADE DOMINANT IN A COMMERCIAL ERA? The Very Reverend Alexander P. Doyle. THE DEFICIENT SUPPLY OF MEN FOR THE MINISTRY, Ernest DeWitt Burton, D.D. A PRESSING NEED OF THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION, AND HOW TO MEET IT, William Adams Brown, Ph.D., D.D. THE EDUCATION OF RELIGIOUS PERSONALITY, Samuel A. Eliot, D.D. THE PASTOR AS A TEACHER, Philip S. Moxom, D.D. PHILANTHROPY AND THEOLOGY, George Hodges, D.D. THE INFLUENCE OF MISSIONS ON CHRISTIAN CONSCIOUSNESS, J. Herman Randall, D.D. BIENNIAL SURVEY OF SUNDAY-SCHOOL PROGRESS, E. Morris Fergusson, A.M. MATERIALS FOR ORGANIZED SUNDAY-SCHOOL INSTRUCTION, MATERIAL OF INSTRUCTION FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE George E. Dawson, Ph.D. THE ADAPTATION OF THE IDEAL CURRICULUM AND METHODS TO LOCAL CONDITIONS, Herbert W. Gates, A.M. THE TRAINING OF SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHERS IN THE LOCAL CHURCH, Prof. Edward P. St. John. IDEALS OF MORAL EDUCATION, Charles DeGarmo, Ph.D. CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS MORAL AND RELIGIOUS TEACHING, Stuart H. Rowe, Ph.D. THE CONTENT OF THE GOSPEL MESSAGE TO MEN OF TODAY, REPORT ON COURSES OF STUDIES IN LIFE PROBLEMS, THE ETHICAL VALUE OF PHYSICAL TRAINING, THE PLACE OF PLAYGROUND WORK, Principal J. Howard Bradstreet. THE ETHICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF PLAY, Luther H. Gulick, M.D. CHARACTER-MAKING IN BOYS' CAMPS, Edgar M. Robinson, M.A. CHARACTER-MAKING IN BOYS' FRATERNITIES, Rev. Frank L. Masseck. THE SIGNIFICANCE TO RELIGIOUS EDUCATION OF THE YEARS OF INFANCY, Charles Richmond Henderson, Ph.D., D.D. THE RELATION OF THE HOME TO MORAL AND RELIGIOUS EDUCA TION, Elmer Ellsworth Brown, Ph.D. THE NERVOUS SYSTEM OF THE INFANT, George E. Dawson, Ph.D. THE USE OF THE STORY IN THE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION OF THE INFANT, Mrs. Louise Seymour Houghton. FIRST STEPS IN CHARACTER FORMATION, Edward O. Sisson, Ph.D. THE PLACE OF THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL LIBRARY IN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION, Andrew Keogh, M.A. UTILIZING THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL LIBRARY IN CHURCH WORK, Mrs. Alice Peloubet Norton. A PLAN OF WORK FOR THE LIBRARY DEPARTMENT OF THE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, Azariah Smith Root, A.M. SOCIAL AND ETHICAL IDEALS IN SUMMER ASSEMBLIES, Mr. Frank Chapin Bray. THE SUMMER SCHOOLS AND THE SUNDAY SCHOOL, MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION, A COMPLETE DIRECTORY OF, All these important subjects are treated at length, by the writers mentioned, in the New Volume, THE MATERIALS OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION. You need this for yourself. You cannot do a better service than to see that your Sundayschool Superintendent, your Teachers, your Pastor secures a copy. Your friends interested in moral and religious education will thank you for calling their attention to this valuable volume. Remember it is free as a membership privilege in THE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION; otherwise the price is net $2.00. Educ P21; DEALING WITH BOYS AT THE CRITICAL PERIOD STREET BOY CLUBS RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IN GERMAN SCHOOLS Published by THE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, bi-monthly, from the Executive Office, 153 La Salle Street, Chicago. Subscription. $1.50 per annum Single Copies, 35 cents Entered as Second-Class Matter May 29, 1908, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1897. கும் The New Volume OF THE Religious Education Association Contains the principal addresses delivered at the Fourth General Convention, at Rochester, in full. Its title is The Materials of Religious Education It is uniform with the volumes already published and is sent, as a membership privilege, to those whose current dues are paid. It contains a FULL DIRECTORY: of all members giving the name, titles and degrees, official position and address. All members are urged to make prompt remittance of their current dues in order that they may receive the volume. The privileges above apply also to new members, who will certainly desire to possess the latest and most complete work on Religious and Moral Education. The Volume is Now READY Price $2.00 Net ADDRESS ALL CORRESPONDENCE TO The Religious Education Association 153 La Salle Street, Chicago THE JOURNAL OF THE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (Copyright, 1907, by The Religious Education Association) Vol. II OCTOBER, 1907 No. 4 Some Relations of Religious Education and Secular Education* ELMER ELLSWORTH BROWN, Ph. D. Religious education cannot permanently employ methods which are out of harmony with the methods of secular education. Those methods may differ with the different subjects to which they are applied; but they cannot permanently contradict each other. The one will gradually assimilate the other. And the one that will assimilate the other, in any age, is the one that, in that age, has the wider hold on the convictions of men. The relation of these two, each to each, varies and must vary from age to age. In the medieval period, it was institutional religion that exercised that wider sway, and secular education, if such it could be called, departed only occasionally or furtively from the ways of religious education. Now it is natural science that rules the minds of men. A thousand evidences to the contrary may be cited, but I believe the broad generalization will still hold true. Science rules the thoughts of men, and modern. education is allied with modern science. It is this type of education that is dominant to-day, and we may confidently expect that in this age it will mold religious education to its standards and its processes. The march of education, having this scientific and secular character, is one of the mightiest spectacles of our modern world. It is the central and unifying fact of modern civilization. The religion of this age is cleft by innumerable differences of faith *A paper read at the Conference of the R. E. A., held in conjunction with the N. E. A., at Los Angeles, California, July 10th, 1907. |