anton, Ohio, busy at his desk for
eleven months, found the Swiss Cottage beside Chautauqua Lake by no
means a place of rest during his brief vacation.

Nor were the burdens upon the other Founder lighter than those of his
associate. The two men talked and corresponded during the year regarding
the coming program, but the selection, engagement, and arrangement of
the speakers was mainly Dr. Vincent's part. At the same hour, often half
a dozen meetings would be held, and care must be taken not to have them
in conflict in their location and their speakers. Changes in the program
must often be made suddenly after a telegram from some lecturer that he
could not arrive on the morrow. New features must be introduced as the
demand and the opportunity arose,--the Baptists, or Methodists, or
Congregationalists, or Disciples desired a meeting, for which an hour
and a place must be found. The only one who kept the list of the
diversified assemblages was Dr. Vincent. He had no secretary in those
days to sit at a desk in an office and represent the Superintendent of
Instruction. His tent at the foot of the grounds was a stage whereon
entrances and exits were constant. Moreover, the audience was apt to
measure the importance of a lecture by the presence of Dr. Vincent as
presiding officer or a substitute in his place introducing the speaker.
The Vincent temperament was less even and placid than the Miller; and
the Assembly of those early years generally closed with its
Superintendent in a worn-out physical condition.

And it must not be forgotten that Dr. Vincent like his Associate Founder
was a busy working man all the year. He was in charge of the Sunday
School work in a great church, supervising Sunday Schools in Buenos
Ayres, and Kiu-kiang, and Calcutta, as well as in Bangor and Seattle. At
his desk in New York and Plainfield he was the editor of nine
periodicals, aided by a small number of assistants. Several months of
every year were spent in a visitation of Methodist Conference setting
forth the work, and stirring up a greater interest in it. He was
lecturing and preaching and taking part in conventions and institutes
everywhere in the land. Chautauqua was only one of the many activities
occupying his mind, his heart, and his time.

The Assembly of 1878, with the inauguration of the C. L. S. C., had been
especially exhausting to Dr. Vincent. Imagine, if you can, his feelings
when he found his desks in the office and the home