SECTION E 

 RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE: PERSONAL 



(Festival Hall, September 25, 10 a. m.) 



CHAIRMAN: CHANCELLOR J. H. KIRKLAND, Vanderbilt University. 

 SPEAKERS: REV. HUGH BLACK, Edinburgh, Scotland. 



PROFESSOR JOHN E. MCFADYEN, Knox College, Toronto. 

 REV. SAMUEL A. ELIOT, Boston, Massachusetts. 

 REV. EDWARD B. POLLARD, Georgetown, Kentucky. 

 SECRETARY: PROFESSOR CLYDE W. VOTAW, University of Chicago. 



IN opening the Section of Religious Influence: Personal, at the 

 general meeting held in Festival Hall, Sunday morning, September 

 25, Chancellor J. H. Kirkland, of Vanderbilt University, spoke as 

 follows: 



" Some objects in nature are so large that one must view them 

 from a great distance to appreciate their magnitude. So some 

 events are so important, so far-reaching in their consequences, that 

 it is only as they are seen in the perspective of history that their 

 true value and significance can be appreciated. This, I am per- 

 suaded, is true of this International Congress of Arts and Science. 

 You, gentlemen, have been laying the foundation on which others, 

 coming after you, shall build. You have doubtless seen, with 

 prophetic vision, the bold outlines of the fair superstructure, but 

 it remains for your distant successors to see its magnificent scope, 

 symmetry, and perfect unity. 



" The growing unity of the world, which has been so marked a 

 feature of these later years, is fitly supplemented by the growing 

 consciousness of the unity of all knowledge. The wisest scientist 

 and the greatest master of art must say, with the greatest theolo- 

 gian of the first century, ' We know in part and we prophesy in 

 part.' Each of us, toiling in his own separate field of investiga- 

 tion, sees only an arc, a very small arc, of the infinite circle of 

 truth. But it is a great thing to realize that whatever truth any 

 of us may make our own, while a part of this circle, is not the whole 

 of it. The value of this truth in the realm of religion, in promoting 

 freedom, charity, and cooperation, is apparent. So far as your 

 present chairman knows, no previous programme of any congress 

 has so fully recognized this principle of the unity of all departments 

 of knowledge, nor assembled so many of the world's greatest 

 thinkers in the widely-separated fields of human investigation. 

 This is your peculiar honor, this the crown of glory, which the 

 muse of history will place on your brow. 



" We are now, in this closing session of the Congress, to deal 



