's Grove, and its pillared temple soon to rise, will
appear often in our story as one of the sacred spots at Chautauqua.

We must not overlook the daily program during this epoch-making season
of 1878. There were the daily classes studying Greek and Hebrew under
Drs. Strong and Vail. There was a class in microscopy, with the Misses
Lattimore; there was the normal class with a full number of students
ending with the successful examination of more than one hundred and
forty new members of the Normal Alumni Association. The annual reunion
of the Normal Alumni was celebrated with the usual banners, procession,
address, the illuminated fleet and fireworks.

The lecture platform of 1878 stood at as high a level as ever. If any
one speaker bore off the honors of that year, it was Bishop Randolph S.
Foster of the Methodist Episcopal Church, whose lectures on "Beyond the
Grave" drew the largest audiences and aroused the deepest interest. They
were afterward published in a volume which attracted wide attention, and
brought some criticism from preachers of the conservative school. There
were even some who talked of an impeachment and trial, but they did not
venture to bring the greatest thinker and theologian in their church to
the bar. Other lecturers who made their mark were Dr. Robert M. Hatfield
of Chicago, President Charles H. Fowler, Dr. (soon after Bishop) John F.
Hurst, Dr. John Lord, the historian-lecturer, Dr. Joseph Cook, Professor
William North Rice, Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage, with his entertaining lecture
on "Big Blunders," and Dr. Charles F. Deems on "The Superstitions of
Science."

One remarkable meeting was held on the afternoon of the opening day,
Tuesday, August 6th. In the Pavilion four men gave in turn the
distinctive doctrines and usages of their several churches. These were
the Rev. Mr. Seymour, Baptist, Rev. Mr. Williston, Congregationalist,
Rev. Dr. Hatfield, Methodist, and Rev. J. A. Worden, Presbyterian.
Without attempt at controversy or criticism each speaker named the
principles for which his branch of the Holy Catholic Church stood. There
was the most cordial feeling. Each listener believed as strongly as
before in his own denomination, but many felt a greater respect for the
other branches of the true vine. At the close all the congregation sang
together,

Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love.

A new building took its place upon the grounds, and speedily beca