Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-08-11

tauaua National Sunday School Assembly
bought several hundred acres of beautiful
woodland near the upper part of the lake
and established their camping ground
there. People came by the hundreds and
then by the thousands. More people came
to see what these people were doing. Tents
soon gave way to cottages. walks became
avenues, arbors and bush tabernacles were
replaced by temple, athenaeum, amphi-
theater, museum. coliseum skating rink,
&C., SC. A magnificent hotel equal in all
its appointments to the best in New York
rose as if by magic. boarding houses by the
dozen, but more modest in accommoda-
ton and charges sprung up till now Chau-
tauqua is beautiful woodland city which
with it's pretty vine-clad cottages, bright
flower walks, shaded bowers, where the
sun can scarcely penetrate. all centering at
the grand amphitheater where six thous-
and people sit in tiers and hear with ease
single speaker who stands below them.
and listen to the grand organ which wakes
the echoes of the forest around-all COM
bine to make up something unlike any
thing else in the world, something beyond
even the descriptive powers of Talmage.
who lectured here last week. He said,
when asked by the English people what
Chautauqua was: "Chautauaua. why 1t
is grand-Chautauqua is splendid
well you will have to 60 and see what
Chautauqua ISL And Bishop Wiley. one
of the most learned and distinguished of
Methodist divlnes, said the other day,
"W hat is Chautauqua? A Christian light,
a Christian power, Christian center. one
of the most hopeful, one of the most pow
erful, one of the most promising things
for the outlook of Christianity and far in
the advance of any one institution of all
the past. Why Chautauqua is big enough
to save the gospel il there was nothing
else left" You will know from this brief
description that the Sunday School Assem-
bly, has grown to be something more, as
well as the tents and arbors and bush tab
ernacles have grown to be something
more. Distinguished dlvines from all over
the country, come here to preach, devoted
missionaries from the four corners of the
earth are here to tell of the work that is
being done in Outstanding the world and
to get encouragement and help; erudite
professors from the highest universities in
the land are spending their vacation here.
teaching in short lessons and courses 9TH
er teachers who come to spend their vaca-
tion in learning; learned scientists and lin
GUSTS have their summer classes and skill
full artists and sculptors and musicians
contribute to the general fund Of valuable
information, and there are enrolled this
season in the Teachers Retreat and School
of Languages alone, two hundred and
forty-six of the profession. The course
is four years one and in the graduating
class this year the sage of so will stand
besides the youth CT 20 and the venerable
matron OF " by the lassie of 16, when the
diplomas are awarded.
All this takes money. Wealthy philan-
throphists have donated their thousands.
Every conner contributes his Is cents,
every scholar few dollars. and large
sum is raised. The thing grows bigger
and bigger every year. Those interested
live in the woodland city and the thou
sands who come to see what these thou
sands are doing. find pleasant abodes in
the score or more hotels and resorts along
the 30 or 40 miles of beach. come to the
place every day to look and wonder at the
unusual sight, enjoy the grand music, lis
ten to the learned and other attractive dis.
courses, which are all as fres as the pure
pure air, and 60 awaY to return again and
wonder and enjoy.
COMFORTS.
AS to the creature comforts, here is the
sweetest butter, the richest milk, the fla
kiest bread, the purest maple syrup, the
the juiciest beef, the freshest fish, the
healthiest, coolest air; no flies, no mos
quitos, no ants, no Lizards, no snakes, no
bar rooms, no riots, no profanity, no Sab
bath breaking; not a visitor is allowed to
leave aud not a stranger to enter the gates
on Sunday not railroad train to stop at
the station, or steamboat to land at its
wharves from Saturday night until Mon
day morning. In fact as nearly as they
can make it, they have paradise on earth
and there is even
MODEL PALESTINE IN MINIATURE
on the grounds, covering an area Of about
an acre, gotten up at considerable expense
by landscape artist who "has been
there" There is Jrusalem, like toy
city, with its temple and mnarets, its
houses and streets, the Mount of Olives
and the Gethsemane garden. the long
stretch of country from Dan to Beersheba.
the Dead Sea and the Sea of Tiberias, the
river Jordan. water In miniature streams
and pools, Tyre and Sidon, and Joppa and
Nineveh on the seacoast, 1.-THE lake shore),
the Wilderness in artificial rocks and crags
of cement and stone, Lebanon, Jericho.
Nazareth, Bethlehem, the rocky road that
leads down to jericho, the rich pasture
lands and grassy AMI wooded mountains
in fact all the notable points of Sacred
history, with the names and scripture ref
srences on tin plates, and here and there
through this plot are any time to be seen
groups of interested students, Bible in
hand ''spying out the land" Oh, this
this Chautauqua is-ChautauQua.
NORTHERN FARMING.
But it will interest your readers, espec-
tally Augusta farmers, to hear something
of the farming up north. Your correspon-
dent has, in the last few days, had a run
through some Of the finest farming lands
in Ohio. New York and Pennsylvania. and
the impression you have in Augusta that
this is the greatest crop year of the cen
fury perhaps, seems to be shared every
where have been. Along the Ohio river
below Pittburg the farming country is as
rich as God and man can make it, and far