Arizona republican., 1899-03-01
A NOTED GUEST
Bishop John H. Vincent of inc II. F.
 Church in inc City.

Rev Dr. John H. Vincent of Topeka
 Kan, bishop of the Methodist EPIsco-
 pal church, arrived in the city lasl
 night. He came to visit Mrs. Vincent
 who came here early in the winter or
 account of her health, and is stopping
 at the Hotel Adams.
 | Prominent as Dr. Vincent is
 in the highest position to which he can be raised in great church organization. his. chief dis
 tinction lies in the fact that he IS the founder of the Chautauqua movement. Bishop Vincent is 67 years of age. He began church work early. Having re- ceived an academic education at Mill
 ton and Lewisburg, Pa., he began to
 preach ,at the age of eighteen. lie
 completed his training for the min
 istry at the Wesleyan institute at
 Newark, N. J., and in the four years
 theological course prescribed by the
 conference of New Jersey, into which
 he was received in 1853. He was or
 dained deacon in 1855 and elder two
 years later, when he was transferred
 to the Rock River conference, SerV- ing as pastor at Galena, H., and at Chi cago and elsewhere until 1865. At that
 Il110 He SnCCI6Q upUll CA1O oCPeIl olAAOAA \ or church work, which has made him famous He established the North
 west Sunday School. Quarterly and the next year "The Sunday School Teacher" He was appointed general agent of the Methodist Episcopal Sun day School union, and the following year the general conference elected him corresponding secretary, both of, the union and the tract society. He held these posts until 1884. Meanwhile he was the editor of the Sunday school publications of his denomination and conducted the Sunday School Journal of New York SD successfully that its ciI culation rose from 16,000 to 160,000, while that of his lesson books has reached more than 3.000,000.
 The Chautauqua work began in 1873. In conjunction with Lewis Miller of Akron, O., Bishop Vincent projected Sunday school teachers institute for the purpose of preparing teachers for their work by means of lectures and drills. The institute first met at Chau- tauqua N Y, iii August, 1874, and has since assembled every year in the same place. It has extended beyond the linn it's of it's original design and has given rise to allied institutions which, as well as the Sunday school assemblies and the international lessons, extend their benefits tn the members of all Christian bodies. The Chautauqua Lit erary and Scientific circle, which pre- scribes courses of reading for all classes of people, was founded in 1878 and within a few years had 100000 pupils on it's rolls. In connection with this the ChaUtauqua university was summer school in which lectures on most Of the arts and sciences are given and of which Dr. Vincent, who had received the divinity degree from the Ohio Wesleyan uni 1ersity in 1870 and that of L. [. D. i rom Washington and Jefferson in 1885, was made chancellor. He was el- Tated to a bishopric at the general | conference of 1888. Bishop Vincent is | llso distinguished as ar. author. Among | lis works are: Little Footprints in | Bible Lands" fThe Cnautauqua Move nent, ''The Home Book ''The Mod | ,rn Sunday School" and Better Not"