The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, January 1885, No. 4Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle
Religion
The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, January 1885, No. 4
Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle
Chautauqua Institution -- Periodicals; Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle -- Periodicals
Miss Kimball most kindly mailed me the names of the two to three
score of readers in Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Washington
Territories, and I wrote eighteen letters to as many points,
indicating that as one deeply interested in the C. L. S. C., I
was to be over the Northern Pacific Railroad on an evangelistic
tour, and should be happy to meet circles or individual readers,
and render any service possible, and I felt sure if I imparted
nothing I should not fail to be a recipient. I heard from most of
the messages, and with uniform and marked interest in the fact of
meeting one late from Chautauqua, and especially with a member of
the Pansy class of ’87.
At Fargo, Casselton, Cooperstown and Mandan, Dakota, I found
individual readers, and did what I could to induce others to take
up the course. My habit was at the close of each service to make
a few minutes’ statement concerning the C. L. S. C. readings,
their rapid growth, and their very great advantage and exceeding
helpfulness. I received from Plainfield a generous package of the
green books, admission sheets, and circulars, and at each place
these documents were placed in the hands of the people at the
close of the public service, and were received gladly.
At Gladstone, Dakota, the very patient and self-forgetting
Scotch-Irish minister brought from his five miles distant ranch,
his three sons and two daughters, with whom after the service I
drove home, passing the night and most of the next day, the good
minister then driving me to my next appointment (Dickinson),
which also was one of his preaching places.
This family, as a whole, became so interested in the C. L. S. C.
readings (it was not new to them) as to fully decide to take the
course, and at once enter upon it. These bright, thoughtful and
inquiring young people will be benefited beyond estimate by their
thought, research and study, and by their intimate relations to
the great numbers who are pursuing the same stimulating studies.
The adaptation of our grand everybodies’ college to meet a great
want has striking application in this exemplary minister’s home.
At Helena, Montana’s capital, rich and wicked, there is a
single reader, but I failed to find her after repeated public
intimations. At Rathdrum, Idaho, the only reader (a school
teacher) had gone away to the mines. No readers from Oregon were
announced from Plainfield, but I was glad indeed to find a circle
in good beginning in connection with and at the rooms of the
Young Men’s Christian Association of Portland.
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