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LIBRARIESPRESERVATION DIVISION\n\nBIBLIOGRAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET  \nORIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED-EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD  \n308Somers,Arthur s1866-1932.ZReligious education a necessity;an address byBox 166Arthur s.Somers..at Central Congregationalchurch,Drooklym,N.Y.,Sunday evening;Janunry4th,1935.14 p.23 cm.  \n# \"4.ONLy E\n\n Reproductions may not be made without permission from Columbia University Libraries.             \n## RESTRICTIONS ON USE:\n\n# TECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA\n\n3mmREDUCTION RATIO:            10:1MAGE PLACEMENT:IA(IA  \nIB  \nIB I  \nFILM SIZE:            \nDATE FILMED:                    5-22-97INITIALS:          P  \nTBACKING\\#:                                                                                                            23162  \nFILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA.  \nB2  \n# IRelígious正δucationA Necessity\n\nAN ADDRESS BY  \nARTHUR S.SOMERS  \nMember and Former PresidentNew York City Board of Education  \nPresidentBrooklyn Chamber of Commerce  \nAT  \nCENTRAL CoNGREGATIONAL CHURCHBROOKLYN,N.Y.SUNDAY EVENING,JANUARY 4TH,1925.  \n308  \nBoA66  \nWlar12'152s4e  \n# IReligious Eoucation\n\nONSCIOUS of my own limitations,and mindfulof the humble place I needs must occupy amongthe multitude of geniuses,who,in our time andfor ages past,have lent their force,their intelli-gence,and their philosophy to the discussion of the vitalneeds of a people,I am profoundly grateful for the distin·guished honor that comes through the invitation to inaug-urate with the coming of the new year,the discussion thatfrom week to week will engage the serious attention of themembers of this congregation.  \nHowever unworthy I may be,it is significant that thefirst of these discussions should eall us to ponder for a mo-ment upon one of the greatest needs of the time—a needthat presses more heavily with each new day;a compellingneed that will make us face without fear and in the frank-est possible manner,the question,\"Whither are we goingand what are we going to do?”  \nI am not indulging in any extravagances nor am I un-mindfulof the weight of our problems—many perplexing一when I say that religious education or an education witha moral background founded upon religion is the thingthat this nation,yes,the whole world most needs,if it isto endure as a safe and happy abode for our children,theirchildren,and beyond to the limitless generations yet to beborn.  \nIs the theme a new one?Not at all!For fifty years,Ihave heard,week after week,in eloquent language,thatthere is no permanent value to education that lacks a back-ground of moral standards founded upon religion.Myexperience during most of these years has been limitedto the church in which I was born and from whose altar Ihave never had reason to turn away.It is no reflectionupon any ereed—and surely we will not be charged with  \n2  \nnarrow sectarianism—if we submit that among the great-est contributions and soundest reasons justifying theseconvictions,will be found the encyclicals of Pius IX,LeoXIII,and their successors down to the present time,allof whom were concerned with the salvation of the world,and who constantly warned against the evils and dangersinto which we were plunging.They consistently pro-claimed that if humanity is to be saved for humanity'ssake and if we are to return to God for His sake,we mustkeep alive the fires of religion,and that only through aneducation that teaches man to understand his responsibili-ties and to know his God,to love and serve Him here onearth,can this hope be fulfilled.This has been the themeof the world's greatest leaders and thinkers for centuriesand has engaged in our own time the earnest thought ofthe leading teachers of all creeds and denominations.Ineed only to refer to Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes,a Metho-dist,Rev.Doctor David Hummell Greer,an Episcopalian,Rev.Washington Gladden,a Congregationalist,ProfCas-part Wistar Hedge,of 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