A VOICE: A lady says it makes the evening hearth exceedingly pleasant.
A VOICE: It inspires us to want to help others.
A VOICE: It has in one instance made a Christian of an Infidel.
A VOICE: There is a book in the course that will do that every time it is attentively read.
A VOICE: “The Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation.”
A VOICE: And “The Outline Study of Man” is a wonderful book.
A VOICE: It helps fathers and mothers to grow up with their children.
A VOICE: It helps them cultivate their memory.
A VOICE: I found that I could remember dates much better than before.
REV. W. D. BRIDGE: It brings the old into sympathy with the young.
A VOICE: It gives even old men books they would not have read.
A VOICE: It creates a spirit of union among all kinds of people that belong to it.
A VOICE: It brings the grown people into sympathy with the public school and its work.
A VOICE: It makes us better Christians and workers in the church.
A VOICE: It was suggested a moment ago that it brings the older people into sympathy with the young: I think it brings the young people into sympathy with the old.
A VOICE: It increases the respect of the young for the old also.
A VOICE: It teaches old people to become younger.
A VOICE: It makes old people wish that the thing had been thought of earlier.
DR. VINCENT: That is a great thing for Chautauqua as well as for us.
A VOICE: It teaches us never to be discouraged.
A VOICE: It teaches us the spirit of propriety.
A VOICE: The first of the Chautauqua mottoes has been noticed; the other two should come in for their share.
DR. VINCENT: The other two mottoes should be recognized. It helps us to “keep our Heavenly Father in the midst.”
A VOICE: It shows in the class of ’82 the proof of the third motto, “Never be discouraged.”
A VOICE: It teaches us to “look up, and not down.”
DR. VINCENT: To “look forward and not backward,” to “look out and not in,” and “to lend a hand.”
A VOICE: It leads to an investigation of science by people who had never thought of it before.
MR. INGHAM: It teaches all classes to find a book store.
DR. VINCENT: Brother Ingham is in the book trade. [Laughter.]
A VOICE: It teaches people that no one is too old to study.
A VOICE: It gives a higher idea of the responsibility of life.