MR. MARTIN: It keeps wives home in the evening.
A VOICE: It crowds out unprofitable occupation.
A VOICE: It leads to farther investigation.
A VOICE: It cultivates the conversational powers.
DR. VINCENT: It not merely brings subjects of conversation, it brings the
power of conversation.
A VOICE: It makes the Southern people love the Northern people.
A VOICE: It lifts the home up a little higher.
A VOICE: It crowds out gossip.
A VOICE: It cultivates a missionary spirit.
DR. VINCENT: In what respect?
A VOICE: In getting people into the circle and into all kinds of work.
A VOICE: A lady says it makes the evening hearth exceedingly pleasant.
A VOICE: It inspires us to want to help others.
A VOICE: It has in one instance made a Christian of an Infidel.
A VOICE: In more than one instance.
A VOICE: There is a book in the course that will do that every time it is
attentively read.
DR. VINCENT: What is that?
A VOICE: “The Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation.”
A VOICE: And the “Tongue of Fire.”
A VOICE: And “The Outline Study of Man” is a wonderful book.
A VOICE: It helps fathers and mothers to grow up with their children.
A VOICE: It helps them cultivate their memory.
A VOICE: I found that I could remember dates much better than before.
REV. W. D. BRIDGE: It brings the old into sympathy with the young.
A VOICE: It gives even old men books they would not have read.
A VOICE: It creates a spirit of union among all kinds of people that
belong to it.
A VOICE: It brings the grown people into sympathy with the public school
and its work.
A VOICE: It makes us better Christians and workers in the church.
A VOICE: It was suggested a moment ago that it brings the older people
into sympathy with the young: I think it brings the young people into
sympathy with the old.
A VOICE: It increases the respect of the young for the old also.
A VOICE: It teaches old people to become younger.
A VOICE: It makes old people wish that the thing had been thought of
earlier.
A VOICE: It brings us to Chautauqua.
DR. VINCENT: That is a great thing for Chautauqua as well as for us.
A VOICE: It teaches us never to be discouraged.
A VOICE: It teaches us the spirit of propriety.
A VOICE: The first of the Chautauqua mottoes has been noticed; the other
two should come in for their share.
DR. VINCENT: The other two mottoes should be recognized. It helps us to
“keep our Heavenly Father in the midst.”
A VOICE: It shows in the class of ’82 the proof of the third motto,
“Never be discouraged.”
A VOICE: It teaches us to “look up, and not down.”
DR. VINCENT: To “look forward and not backward,” to “look out and not
in,” and “to lend a hand.”
A VOICE: It leads to an investigation of science by people who had never
thought of it before.
MR. INGHAM: It teaches all classes to find a book store.