Excerpt from The Religious Education Association: Proceedings of the Second Annual Convention, Philadelphia, March 2 4, 1904
The Religious Education Association has a little more than passed its first anniversary. On February 12, 1903, by one of the most notably representative conventions ever held in this country, authority was granted to a carefully chosen Board of Directors to act as the agent of the Convention in completing the steps already taken and bringing into being a fully equipped organization. Tonight the Association meets in Philadelphia, this representative city of the East, not alone to make answer of stewardship to its hopeful friends by exhibiting the quality and promise of what has actually been achieved, but to renew a declaration of its broad and helpful policy, to exhibit its plans of administration and of active service, to determine upon wise and fruitful betterments of policy or plans, to reach through the conference of alert and earnest men and women the widest and sanest possible outlook, and to develop anew an intelligent enthusiasm throughout the land for an immediate, aggressive movement on behalf of religious education. In particular, through the carefully unified program of this Convention the Religious Education Association seeks to make an adequate - for working purposes, perhaps a reasonably final - demonstration of the direct and indispensable, yet truly catholic and ecumenical, relation of the Bible to the achievement of the purpose which it keeps steadily in view. Among the many possible and truly efficient means of promoting the responsiveness of the human soul to God which we recognize today, the Scriptures are pre-eminent. Born in the very impulse to make real to men the being and character of God and his active relationship with men, they kindle most quickly and feed most steadily the responsive glow of the soul.
Fully to set forth at this time the character and policy of the Religious Education Association is impracticable and unnecessary. It will vouch for itself.
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