Religion: Culture

An hour by train from Buffalo, a promontory, fair in Summer, cuts the waters of Lake Chautauqua. It is a piece of land almost totally covered with cottages and tents.

Fifty years ago Bishop John H. Vincent, from Lewisburg, Pa., and Lewis Miller, from Akron, founded there a school for Sunday school teachers. Gradually their course of instruction was broadened to include all respectable culture. Others than school teachers came to fill the tents and cottages. And before the 19th Century ended, the spot became one of the wonders of America. It was Chautauqua....

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