Religious Union Meeting.

The Harvard Religious Union last evening elected the following officers: President, H. W. Holmes '03; vice-president, L. W. Hincsley '03; secretary and treasurer, P. Perkins '05.

Rev. S. M. Crothers addressed the club, emphasizing the great possibilities of the Union, which stands for the same ideals in religion as the University does in education, in that it aims for free and impartial study of religious subjects, unhampered by sect or creed.

There has never been a time, he said, when earnest men were so intent upon finding religious ideals and religious sanction for their work. In no better way can men form such ideals and reach religious opinions than by free discussion of religious questions from different points of view. For such serious and helpful discussion this Union offers the greatest opportunity.

Professor Peabody also addressed the meeting. He said that an identity must be established between learning and religion. Men must not get the idea that they are here for learning alone; it is for everything which makes for broader and sounder life that the University stands. Men must make the learning they gain here react upon and strengthen their religious lives. Nothing could be of greater value for this purpose than small meetings of a few men for unconstrained exchange of religious thought and ideals.

The Religious Union intends to hold meetings every other Monday evening during the year at which well known men will speak on religious topics.