s on the Hebrew prophets. Bishop Cyrus D. Foss, one of
the great preachers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, delivered a
sermon on one of the Sundays. The South sent us an able lecturer in
Richard Malcolm Johnson. The orator on Recognition Day, of the Class of
'89, was Dr. David Swing of Chicago, who spoke on "The Beautiful and the
Useful." Dr. Russell H. Conwell gave some lectures, abundant in their
illustrative stories.

I think that this was the year, but am not certain, when Dr. Conwell
preached one Sunday in the Amphitheater a sermon of remarkable
originality, listened to with the closest attention by his hearers,
because he kept them guessing as to his subject until he was more than
half-way through. He said in opening, "I will give my text at the end of
the sermon, if I don't forget it; but I will tell you my subject. I am
going to speak of a man whom our Lord called the Model Church Member."
We all began wondering who that man was, but nobody could recall him. He
said that this model man lived among the mountains, and spoke of the
influence of surroundings upon character; then that where he lived there
were two churches, one large, the other small, one aristocratic and
popular, the other of the lower classes, despised; and that this man
was a member of the church looked down upon; but these facts gave us no
hint as to the model man's identity. He puzzled us once more by saying
that this was a business man who had good credit, and we were still in
the fog;--when did Jesus ever talk about credit? Then he told in graphic
manner, making it seem as if it had happened the day before, the story
of the Good Samaritan, and the problem was solved. But he astonished us
again by saying, "There was one part of this story which for some reason
St. Luke left out of his gospel, and I am going to tell it now";--and of
course everybody was eager to hear a brand-new Bible story not found in
the Scriptures. He told that this man who had been robbed and beaten on
the Jericho road, after his recovery at the inn, went home to Jerusalem,
met his family, and then took his two boys up to the Temple to return
thanks for his restoration. The service in all its splendor was
described. One boy said, "Father, see that priest waving a censer! What
a good man he must be!" But the man said, "My boy, don't look at that
hypocrite! That is the very priest who left me to die beside the road!"
After a few minutes, the younger boy said, "See that Levi