New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-24

VIEW OF THE n
citals will be given by William II. Sherwood during
! the season. The Chautauqua school OF Music f. a
regularly organized Institution, with full corps OF
| instructors In its various departments.
The improvements made In Chautauqua since last
year add greatly to the enjoyment OF visitors. The
Board Of Managers, OF which Lewis Miller is president
is ably represented by DR.. W. A. Duncan, who has
the supervision OF the assembly buildings and grounds
and directs all the work. The sewerage system
includes miles OF pipes, this part OF the work
costing $4,000. The disposal WORKS, which on
the most approved plan, cost $4,000. The
in It's finished condition represents outlay Of So
OOO new enginc-housc is now being pushed to
completion, cement walks are rapidly going down, Il
new fountain is In process of erection The hotel
grounds and DIR. Duncan's plans laid for better
roads. Dr. Duncan has been officially related To
! Chauauqua throughout It's entire history During The
ten years in which he has been its secretary and
business manager the pier building. arcade, colleg"
ChauauQua Literary and Scientific Circle headquarters
the class building, Normal Hail. COLLEGE Hall, the
gymnasium the Kellogg Memorial and 800 OF tie best
cottages have been erected, and thirty have
been added to the tract. DIR. Duncan five years ago
founded Chautauqua Assembly ut Albany, Ga. OF
which he Is superintendent OF instruction. and where
lie conducts a session OF weeks each spring. lie
has also been for fifteen years chairman OF the EXccu
| tive Committee Of the NewYork State sunday school
| Association, Is field secretary of the Con
gregatlonal sunday School and Publication so
ciety which has It's office In Boston
and was for fourteen years president and member OF
the Board Of Education in syracuse. In 18s1 DR..
Duncan conceived the idea OF home Sunday school
classes and this movement has made great advance,
the report OF last year for this State alone showing
membership OF nearly 1000.
The Chautauqua programme for this year is marked
by absence OF highly popular features. such IN,
dramatic national pageant and the expcrments In
chemistry last year. and Is largely given over to
considerations OF SOCIAL questions The University
settlements Conference comprised remarkable series
Of meetings covering wide range OF theoretical and
practical work. Discussions Of this sort at Chauau-
qua carried In liberal and Independent spirit,
and plain facts aIe occasionally brought out in a
strong light Robert A. Woods Of Andovcr House.
Boston, did not hesitate to say that many cburches
out Of downtown districts not because the neigh
borhoOd Is depopuated. but because too many per-
Of kind have moved In. The Rev. George
II. Hodges, Of Pittsburg. In these discussions dealt
vigorously with the Church In lis failure 10 do It's
whole duty by the people in It's vicinity. Miss Jane
Adams, Of Hull House, Chicago, In an address on
| The College Woman and the Family allowed fully
for the duties Of daughter In the home and In polite
society. but insisted her duties citizen Of the
world and child Of the Miss Adams COM
pared the repression and perversion OF wOman's en-
tusasm and emotional capacity TO the state described
in Dante's Inferno" where the individual seeks
his own good before the good OF his felOwmcn, and
instead Of attaining it falls into "A state OF pain and
unhappness. Professor Charles Horswell, In "A recent
sunday morning Bipe study. distributed copies Of the
Gospel Of Peter discovered In Egyptian Christian
cemetery six years ago. and proclaimed the liberal
spirit Of Chautauqua by saying that here, on
Christian Sabbath seventeen centuries after the sup
preston Of this called heretical Gospel II Is promu
gated under the sanction of an orthodox bishop.
The most remarkable occurrence Of the week Just
ended has teen the organization Of the Institute OF
Christian sociology. When 1t Is remembered that
the Woman's Christian Temperance Union was in
formally organized by Miss Willard Mrs Emily Hunt
ington Miller and few other women on the veranda
OF President Lewis Miller's cottage In Chautauqua
1t Is not beyond possibility and reason TO great
future for this new movement. Dr. Josiah Strong I'm
his opening address. said that for centuries the
Christian Church has accepted only onehaIf OF Chrsts
teaching. The kingdom Of Christ was to DO established
earth. and the Church has been devoting It's
energies TO helping TO get ready TO
live In heaven. Christianity had already adapted
itself to three great changes. To the Apologize
age when doctrines being formulated to the
ecclesiastical age and to the Reformation. Man was
now feeling after the right relations OF man to his
fellows. The Rev James A. Brand, Of Oberlin Ohio.
and DR. Richard T. Ety. OF Wisconsin University botl,
made addresses, In which they emphasized the
duty OF the Christian minister TO social problcms
The objects of the Institute stated In the consu
ton adopted last week, to claim for the Christian
law the ultimate authority TO rule social practice and
to study In common how TO apply the truths and
principles OF Christianity TO the social and economic
difficulties OF the present time. Dr. G. D. Heron
OF Iowa University, was appointed principal Of in
struotion and organization The methods Of work
win b. through the publication OF leaflets monographs
and treatses which relate 10 Christian sociology and
the recommendation OF courses OF reading 1t Is In
tended to present the principles OF the Institute in
churhcs and other public places. but especially In
schools, colleges and theological seminarles. as op
portunty may OFFER 30 provide for the preaching Of
sermons and the delivery OF addresses on sociological
topics by members OF the Institute especially on the
first Sunday in May and the Sunday before Labor
Day. II IS proposed 10 establish libraries. scholar
SHIPS feIowsips, lectureshps and professorships to
the extent that funds provided. The formation
of local Institutes Is provided for by the constitution
Membership in the Institute is open to any person In
sympathy with It's objects. There are no dnes, each
person being free 10 make annual contributions In pro.
lsrtion TO his interest in the work and Ills financial