COPE, Henry Frederick, American author, editor and lecturer: b. London, England, 17 June 1870. He was educated at the Government Boy's School, Enfield, the Department of Sciences and Arts, South Kensington, London, and by private tutors. He came to the United States in 1891, studied theology at the Southern Baptist The ological Seminary, and was ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1893. He subsequently held pastorates in Rochester, N. 1894-95; Plano, Ill., 1895-98; and Dillon, Mont., 1898-1903. In 1903 he was engaged in teaching and in special literary work in Chicago. For eight years he was religious editor of the Chicago Daily Tribune, and contributed weekly a column to a syndicate embracing the leading daily papers and was on the staff of The World To-Day, The Sunday School Lines, Service, the Country Gentleman, etc. He became assistant secretary in 1905, and in 1907 general secretary of the Religious Education So-iety, in which capacity he has visited and spoken in nearly all educa tional institutions, visiting practically every State in the Union every year. He has been
editor of Religious Education since its founda tion in 1906. He has edited (Adams Primer on Teaching) (1905) ; (The Aims of Religious Education) (1906); (The Materials of Religious Education) (1907); (Education and National Character) (1908) and is the author of 'The Bonanza Bible Class) (1904) ; (Sunday School Management) (1905) ; (Hymns You Ought to Know) (1906) ; 'The Modern Sunday School in Principle and Practice) (1907); (Levels of Living) (1908); (The Friendly Life' (1909); (The Efficient Laymen) (1910) ; (The Evolution of the Sunday School) (1911); 'Efficiency in the Sunday School) (1912) ; (Religious Educa tion in the Family) (1915). He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Oberlin College in 1911, and that of D.D. from Washburn Col lege in 1911.