SECTION F 

 RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE: SOCIAL 



(Festival Hall, September 25, 3 p. m.) 



CHAIRMAN: DR. J. H. GARRISON, St. Louis, Missouri. 

 SPEAKERS: PRESIDENT JOSEPH SWAIN, Swarthmore College. 



DR. EMIL G. HIRSCH, Chicago, Illinois. 



PROFESSOR EDWARD C. MOORE, Harvard University. 



DR. JOSIAH STRONG, American Institute of Social Service, New York. 

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



IN opening the Section of Religious Influence: Social, at the gen- 

 eral meeting held in Festival Hall, Sunday afternoon, September 25, 

 Dr. James H. Garrison, of St. Louis, spoke as follows : 



" The subject assigned to this hour will be discussed by each 

 speaker according to his own views as to its meaning. No division 

 of the topic has been made, no particular interpretation suggested. 

 We feel sure, however, that the papers of the morning will open up 

 one of the most important and interesting fields of thought and 

 discussion. Christianity is the unfolding of a person, and Christian 

 influence is the power of an individual life. The individual is the 

 social unit, after all. All education, so far as it is vital and effective, 

 is the influence of one personality over another. This influence has 

 power, not simply to instruct, but to transmute the baser elements 

 into the finer and change the very essence of being. Radio-activity 

 has long been foreshadowed in the realm of mind and soul. This 

 is one of the incidental rewards of noble being, that it shines like 

 the stars, never dimmed; warms like the sun, never cooling; draws 

 like the eternal pull of gravity." 



