PRESS OF THE ILLINOIS PRINTING COMPANY DANVILLE, ILLINOIS HARVARD COLLEGE DEC 27 1906 LIBRARY. Gratis Copyright 1906 PREFATORY NOTE The public discussion of religious education in our higher institutions of learning has become of so great interest that it seemed worth. while to call a conference for the discussion of the subject in connection with the installation of Doctor E. J. James as President of the University of Illinois, October, 1905. A wide interest developed in the plans and a number of distinguished gentlemen agreed to read papers and to participate in the discussions. In accordance with the arrangements the first session was held at nine o'clock, Thursday, October 19, 1905. Professor Shailer Matthews of the University of Chicago presided over the conference, kindly giving up an intended vacation to do so. The following resolution, offered by Professor Kelsey of the University of Michigan, was unanimously passed at the evening session: "Resolved, that this conference recommends to the religious denominations the consideration of the question whether the theological schools in the region of the State University may not be grouped about the State University to mutual advantage. "And be it further resolved that the chairman of this conference and the President of the University of Illinois be requested to act as a committee to transmit a copy of this resolution to the proper ecclesiastical authorities of each denomination." The meetings of the conference were held in the University Place Church, and an expression of thanks was made at the close of the conference to the pastor and the members of that church for their courtesy. At the evening session the following communication was offered by the chairman, and voted by the conference: "I feel that it would be very appropriate for us to express informally if we do not have opportunity to do it formally, the warm appreciation of those who have come as guests, of the perfection of the arrangements which have been made, and especially of the hospitable and cordial spirit with which a forum has been provided for the discussion of these fundamental issues, not merely to the universities but to the public. ARTHUR H. DANIELS, Committee. The program was as follows: PROGRAM Professor Shailer Mathews, D.D., of the University of Chicago, Presiding. MORNING SESSION: 9:00 A.M., Thursday, October 19. GENERAL SUBJECT: What Religious Education May the State University Undertake? Organ Voluntary: Frederick Locke Lawrence, Director of the School of Music, University of Illinois. Devotional Exercises: Conducted by Right Reverend Edward William Osborne, D.D., Bishop Coadjutor of Springfield. Address of Welcome: Professor Thomas Arkle Clark, The University of Illinois. Introductory Address: By the President of the Conference. Addresses: President William Oxley Thompson, D.D., Ohio State University; Reverend B. Cassilly, S. J., D.D., Vice-president of St. Ignatius College. Discussion: Reverend William Franklin Anderson, D.D., Secretary of the Board of Education, Methodist Episcopal Church. The Very Reverend Dean Duffy, Danville, Illinois. President William Lowe Bryan, Ph.D., LL.D., Indiana University. Reverend Jenkin Lloyd Jones, D.D., Pastor of All Souls Church, Chicago, and Editor of "Unity." General Discussion: Right Reverend Edward William Osborne, D.D. President Lilian Wyckoff Johnson, Ph.D., Western College for Women. President Anna Sneed Cairns, A.M., Forest Park University. Reverend W. J. Bergin, C.S.V., A.M., Pastor St. Viateurs College. Music. Devotional Exercises. AFTERNOON SESSION: 3:00 P.M. Address: The State Universities and the Churches; Professor Francis Willey Kelsey, Ph.D., University of Michigan. Address: Obligations of the Church to its Adherents in the State Universities; President Henry Churchill King, D.D., Oberlin College, Representative of the Religious Education Association. Discussion: President James David Moffat, LL.D., Washington and Jefferson College, and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. Professor John Henry Gray, Ph.D., Northwestern University. Reverend Willis G. Banker, D.D., Presbyterian Church, Lawrence, Kansas. Devotional Exercises. EVENING SESSION: 8:00 P.M. Address: The Affiliated College; President Webster Merrifield, M.A., University of North Dakota. Discussion: Dean W. J. Lahamon, A.M., Bible College of Missouri. Reverend William S. Marquis, D.D., Representative of The Illinois Synod of the Presbyterian Church. President David Ross Boyd, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma. Reverend Francis A. Wilber, D.D., Principal of Westminister House, University of Kansas. General Discussion:-Professor E. L. Rivard, C.S.V., D.D., Ph.D., St. Viateurs College. |