He who sees Chautauqua must understand the relations (not generally understood) between gracious culture and the rough, unæsthetic services which people must render each other and their own lives in this world, services of feeding and clothing and cleaning and housing—low, gross and humiliating, as judged from an artist’s studio or a “poet’s frenzied mood.” He must find out that high and low, noble and ignoble are relative terms; that a kitchen may for a time cage an angel whose hands dabble in dough, and whose tired feet in coarse shoes tread rough floors. She may serve her inferiors and treasure the pittance they give her to buy books for her brain life, at least that portion of the pittance she does not need to feed unfortunate people who depend upon her. When crowns are given out, a marvelous readjustment of relations will take place, and certain little neighborhoods will be shaken with surprise. Chautauquans with eyes see the distinctions in advance, and recognize the crowns that hover in mid-air over the saints, and they pay honors to “Alfreds in neat herd’s huts” before the throne is ready. Chautauquans who have eyes to see have discovered the strong and delicate cords of religious life which run through and unite all the diverse elements of life into a sacred harmony—a sacrament exceeding holy. Chautauquans see God in everything and find in everything ways of coming near to him. They believe in nature and in science—true science—and abide by her final decisions, and take delight in her processes. But they believe also in a FATHER whose thought makes scientific thought possible, and of whose creative and controlling thought science is but an interpretation. Chautauquans believe in the God of the Book—the BOOK of Books. They do not trouble themselves about the _modus_, the _quantum_ and the _qualitas_ of inspiration. They simply take the book in its entirety, as the book given to be studied, trusted, loved, and obeyed, as individual conscience and judgment respond to its contents after calm, devout and diligent study thereof; and not to be quarreled over or quibbled about, or forced to sustain preconceived or preaccepted notions by a string of separated texts on the cord of a curious fancy, or an antiquated dogma. They put BOOK and soul together, and trust both thoroughly for fair treatment.