557th OEDINAEY GENEEAL MEETING. 



HELD (BY KIND PERMISSION) IN THE ROOMS OF THE 

 ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS, ON MONDAY, MAY 18th, 1914, 



AT 4.30 P.M. 



Mr. E. J. Sewell took the Chair. 



The Minutes of the preceding Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The Secretary announced that Dr. J. J. Acworth had been elected 

 a Member, and Mr. Archibald Greenlees an Associate of the Institute. 



The Chairman then introduced the Rev. Chancellor McCormick to the 

 Meeting, and asked him to deliver his address. 



THE COMPOSITE OF RACES AND RELIGIONS IN 

 AMERICA. By the Kev. S. B. McCormick, D.D., 

 Chancellor of Pittsburg University, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. 



IN this paper the writer purposely omits any mention of the 

 Indian, the Negro and the Oriental in the United States, 

 They present difficulties which must be met ; but intermarriage 

 is not one of them. The Indian problem is in process of 

 satisfactory solution. Whatever be the final issue in tlie case 

 of the Ne2;ro, it will not be misce^'enation. The Oriental 

 immigration has not yet, in spite of the feeling aroused, assumed 

 serious proportions ; nor will it involve either now or later any 

 considerable intermingling by marriage, even though it were 

 possible that such relationship might ultimately be mutually 

 beneficial. We therefore dismiss these, important as they are 

 in their place, from all mention in this paper. 



Since the Jew prefers to keep his stock pure and mairies 

 almost always within his own people, no special consideration is 

 given here to the large and important Hebrew immigration into 

 America. It is true that the Jew touches life at many points 

 and must inevitably influence racial development. He is 

 crowding our city colleges and universities. He is taking his 

 place in the learned professions. He is coming to dominate in 

 many important financial movements. He enters whole- 

 heartedly and with genuine enthusiam for humanity into many 

 forms of social uplift. He is a force therefore to be reckoned 

 with. But so far as the racial and religious composite is 

 concerned, he affects it only from without, and therefore 

 indirectly, and relatively ineffectively. 



